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Patricio Ferrari is an Argentine-Italian polyglot poet, translator, and editor. He holds an MA in comparative literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle, an MFA in poetry from Brown University, and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Lisbon. Ferrari has published or forthcoming twenty-three books, including The Galloping Hour, by Alejandra Pizarnik (New Directions, 2018; co-translated with Forrest Gander). In 2025 he was awarded the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize for Mud Songs, the first volume of Elsehere—a multilingual trilogy exploring how the sounds, structures, and meanings of each language shape identity. Ferrari calls this heterophony: the embodiment of another self through an adopted tongue. He lives in New York, where he teaches in the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College and at Rutgers University–Newark and hosts the World Poetry Salon in collaboration with Limelight Poetry (founded by Wang Yin) and the New York Public Library.