Ann Cefola is the author of When the Pilotless Plane Arrives (Trainwreck Press, 2021), Free Ferry (Upper Hand Press, 2017), Face Painting in the Dark (Dos Madres Press, 2014), St. Agnes, Pink-Slipped (Kattywompus Press, 2011), and Sugaring (Dancing Girl Press, 2007); and translations of Hélène Sanguinetti’s The Hero / Hence This Cradle (Trainwreck Press, 2022), The Hero (Chax Press, 2018), and Hence this cradle (Seismicity Editions, 2007). A Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency recipient at the Santa Fe Art Institute, she also received the Robert Penn Warren Award judged by John Ashbery.