Spring Ulmer

Spring Ulmer is a poet, translator, and professor at Middlebury College, known for her poetry collections including Benjamin’s Spectacles (selected by Sonia Sanchez for the 2007 Kore Press First Book Award), The Age of Virtual Reproduction, Bestiality of the Involved, and Phantom Number: An Abecedarium for April (winner of the 2022 Dorset Prize).[1][4][6] She won the 2016 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize and a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for her translations of Yannis Ritsos's works, such as Exercises, 1950–1960 and Autumn.[1][3][4] Ulmer's scholarly essays appear in anthologies on post-racial America, comparative feminism, and photography/cinema, and she lives in upstate New York.[1][7]