Samira Negrouche

Samira Negrouche is a poet and translator who was born and lives in Algiers, Algeria. Author of seven poetry collections and several artists’ books, she has participated in various multidisciplinary projects. She collaborated with choreographer Fatou Cissé on Traces. The Olive-Trees’ Jazz and Other Poems (Pleiades Press, 2020), translated by Marilyn Hacker, was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and the National Translation Award in Poetry.