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Daisy Rockwell
Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. Her work has been awarded the International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation, the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award, and the Kalinga International Literary Award. Her translations have been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and PEN Translates. She has written two novels, Taste (2014) and Alice Sees Ghosts (2025), as well as a collection of poems and essays on translation titled Mixed Metaphors (2026). Her memoir Our Friend, Art is forthcoming from Pushkin Press in 2027.
