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Patricio Ferrari is a polyglot poet, literary translator, and editor. He holds degrees from the Sorbonne (MAS), Brown University (MFA), and the University of Lisbon (PhD). As translator and editor, he has published more than twenty books, including the complete works of Fernando Pessoa’s three heteronyms—Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis—co-translated with Margaret Jull Costa, and The Galloping Hour: French Poems by Alejandra Pizarnik, co-translated with Forrest Gander (all from New Directions). In 2026 Ferrari received the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize for Mud Songs, the first volume of his Elsehere trilogy. Based in New York City since 2017, he teaches at Rutgers University–Newark and in the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College. Ferrari also hosts World Poetry Salon, a collaboration between Limelight Poetry (founded by Wang Yin) and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library of the New York Public Library.