Alfred Corn is the author of eleven books of poems, two novels and three collections of essays. He has received the Guggenheim, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at Yale, UCLA, and Columbia. In 2017 he was inducted into the Georgia Writers’ Hall of Fame. He has translated from Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, Chinese, and Spanish. n 2022, Norton published Corn’s translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies. His most recent volume of poetry is The Returns, and in November MadHat Press will bring out a collection of short stories titled Hosts. This past January, Corn left the United States and is now living in Europe.