Will Schutt is an award-winning poet and translator. 

 

He is the author of Westerly, selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.

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His translations from Italian include My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti, Fabio Genovesi's novel The Breaking of a Wave and Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems by Fabio Pusterla, published by Princeton University Press.   

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He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship,  the Raiziss/de Palchi Award from the Academy of American Poets, and many other awards. 

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He lives in Rome and co-directs Policromia, an annual poetry and translation festival in Siena. 

  

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