Conor Bracken

Conor Bracken is a poet, translator, and educator. His chapbook, Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour, was selected by Diane Seuss as winner of the fifth annual Frost Place Chapbook Competition (Bull City Press, 2017), and his debut collection of poems, The Enemy of My Enemy is Me, winner the 2020 Diode Editions Book Prize, was published in 2021. His latest collection of poems, All-American Dad, will be published by Bridwell Press in 2026

His translation work focuses on francophone literature. Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center, 2019), his translation of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s first full-length collection of poems, was the first English translation of the avant-garde Moroccan writer’s work. Another translation—of Jean D’Amérique’s No Way in the Skin without this Bloody Embrace—was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2022 and is D’Amérique’s first appearance in English. He has published subsequent translations of both writers: The Burial and other short prose (UVA, 2026) and Workshop of Silence (Vanderbilt, 2025).

His work has earned support from Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, the deGroot Foundation, Cornell’s Institute for Comparative Modernities, The Frost Place, Inprint, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Vermont Studio Center. He lives in Ohio, teaches classes with LitCleveland, and is an associate professor of Liberal Arts at the Cleveland Institute of Art.