John R. Carpenter

Writer and Translator. Brought up in Massachusetts and California, schools in Ojai and Putney Vermont. Harvard College. Doctorate in Comparative Literature. Numerous publications. Translation awards, Islands and Continents Translation Award, Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Award, Award Andrew Mellon Foundation, Translation Center Award Columbia University. Fellow National Endowment for the Arts twice in writing, twice in translation. Married to Bogdana Chetkowska Carpenter. Two children, three grandchildren. Lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, part of the year in Warsaw.