Yvette Siegert

Yvette Siegert is a Latinx poet, translator, scholar and critic. Her poetry is grounded in storytelling and the archive, exploring themes of migration, territory, multilingualism and other forms of movement (translation) between what is known and unknown. 

She is the author of Atmospheric Ghost Lights, selected by Monica Youn for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Chapbook Fellowship Award. Her debut collection, which was a winner of the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize, is forthcoming from Bloodaxe Books. 

Her translation of Chantal Maillard’s Killing Plato (New Directions) was shortlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, while her compilation of Alejandra Pizarnik’s poetry, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 – 1972 (New Directions), won the Best Translated Book Award. 

Born in Los Angeles, to parents from El Salvador and Colombia, Siegert grew up between the US and Mexico and is now settled in the West Midlands. She is completing a doctorate in Spanish American and Caribbean literature at Merton College, University of Oxford.