Ian U Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor, living in New Orleans. He’s the author of Defensible Space/if a crow—, out now from Omnidawn, and A Seam of Electricity, a chapbook from Ghost Proposal. In 2021, Cardboard House Press published his translation of Chilean poet Carlos Cociña’s Gardens, and Carrion Bloom Books recently published his translation of a sequence by Mexican poet Diana Garza Islas, called Probable Synonyms of the Word Sololoy. He edits mercury firs, an online journal of poetry and translation, is a contributing editor at Tilted House, and with fahima ife, co-edits the chapbook press LUCIUS.
Contact: ianlockaby (at) gmail (dot) com