Carolyn L. Tipton, born and raised in Berkeley, California, is a poet, translator, and teacher. She has a Master’s Degree in English/Creative Writing from Stanford University and a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, where she currently teaches in the Fall Program for Freshmen. She has published many poems and translations both in various journals, including Partisan Review and Two Lines, and in anthologies, including Norton’s World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time, and Robert Hass’ Now and Then: The Poet’s Choice Columns, 1997-2000. She has been the recipient of various grants and awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has also been awarded writing residencies at The Banff Centre and the Vermont Studio Center. She has given readings of her poems and translations in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, and Spain. Her first book of translations of the poetry of Alberti, To Painting: Poems by Rafael Alberti (Northwestern University Press), won the National Translation Award. Her second, Returnings: Poems of Love and Distance (White Pine Press) won the Cliff Becker Translation Prize.
