Bio

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Daisy Rockwell is a visual artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. She 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, and the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. She has received grants for her work from the NEA, the NEH, and PEN Translates. Rockwell is the author of two novels, Taste (Foxhead, 2014) and Alice Sees Ghosts (Galiot Press, 2026); Mixed Metaphors, a collection of poems on translation (Bloomsbury India, 2026); and The Little Book of Terror, a collection of essays and paintings on the Global War on Terror (Foxhead, 2012). Her essays and translations have appeared in many publications, including Granta, Vogue, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares. Her memoir of growing up in a family of artists, Our Friend, Art, is forthcoming from Pushkin Press (US/UK) in 2027.