Chloe Garcia Roberts

Chloe Garcia Roberts is a poet, essayist, and translator from the Chinese and Spanish. She has published a book of poetry, The Reveal (Noemi Press), and her translations include Li Shangyin’s Derangements of My Contemporaries: Miscellaneous Notes (New Directions), which was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and a collected poems of Li Shangyin published by New York Review Books. She is the recipient of a NEA fellowship in translation for her translation of the novel Carne de Dios by Mexican author Homero Aridjis (University of Arizona Press, 2025). Her next book, Fire Eater: A Translator's Theology, will be published in the fall of 2024, and her essays, poems, and translations have been published in such journals as BOMB, A Public Space, and Yale Review. She lives in Boston and works as deputy editor of Harvard Review and as a lecturer of poetry at MIT.