Ian U Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor, living in New Orleans. He’s the author of Defensible Space/if a crow—, forthcoming from Omnidawn in October 2024. Poems have been or will be published in Fence, Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, Ecotone, Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. His translations of Latin American poetry has appeared in journals such as Black Warrior Review, Circumference, and Washington Square Review. In 2021, Cardboard House Press published his translation of Chilean poet Carlos Cociña’s Gardens, and in 2024, Carrion Bloom Books will publish his translation of a sequence by Mexican poet Diana Garza Islas. From 2018-2021, he was an editor at New Delta Review. He now edits mercury firs, an online journal of poetry and translation, is a contributing editor at Tilted House, and with fahima ife, co-edits the forthcoming journal/press LUCIUS. For many years, he was a farmworker in and around Olympia, WA, and forever thinks inside vegetables.
Contact: ianlockaby@gmail.com