Jody Gladding is a poet and translator. She has published five collections of poetry, most recently, I entered without words (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, 2022). Her poems have appeared widely in journals, including Best American Experimental Writing, ecopoetics, Northern Woodlands, and Poetry International. Her forty translations from French include works by Marie-Claire Bancquart, Philippe Delerm, Jean Giono, and Julia Kristeva. She has taught in the MFA Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and has directed the Writing Program at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. Her awards include MacDowell and Stegner Fellowships, Yale Younger Poets Prize, and the Whiting Writers’ Award. She lives in East Calais, Vermont where her work explores the places that language and landscape converge.