Sarah Arvio

Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts

For her first book of poems, Visits from the Seventh, Sarah Arvio was awarded the Rome Prize of the Academy of Arts and Letters (2003-2004) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005-2006). Sono: Cantos, her second book, was written during her stay at the American Academy in Rome. A combined edition of her two books will be published in England in 2009.  A set of poems appeared in Poeti & Poesie (Rome, 2007), translated into Italian by Antonella Anedda.  Poems from Arvio’s two books are anthologized in The Best American Erotic Poems (2008), Women’s Work (Wales, 2007) and The KGB Bar Book of Poems (2000); the opening sequence of Visits from the Seventh won the Paris Review’s B.F. Conners Prize and is reprinted in The Best American Poetry (1998). In 2008, Arvio won the Boston Review Poetry Contest. She has translated novels, stories, poems and a documentary film, winning a national Endowment for the Arts Translators Fellowship in 1992. She worked for many years as a translator for the United Nations in New York and Switzerland.