Beatrice Szymkowiak

Beatrice Szymkowiak is a French-American writer and scholar. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Red Zone (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a poetry chapbook, as well as the winner of the 2017 OmniDawn Single Poem Broadside Contest, and the recipient of the 2022 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry for her full-length collection B/RDS, published by the University of Utah Press in 2023. Her work also has appeared in numerous poetry magazines.(updated 2024) 

Translations

"Blood Sausage" by Gabriela Jauregui (French)

"When Her Body is a Battleground" by Kimberly Blaeser (French)

"Epistle: Hagar" by Sarah Ghazal Ali (French)

With grateful acknowledgment to French language reviewers: Grace Hawkins and Anthony Sha.