Hélène Cardona

Poet

California US

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Author's Bio

The recipient of over 20 awards, including the Independent Press Award and fellowships from the Goethe-Institut and Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, HÉLÈNE CARDONA'S 7 books include Life in Suspension (2016), called “a vivid self-portrait as scholar, seer and muse” by John Ashbery, and Dreaming My Animal Selves (2013), described by David Mason as “liminal, mystical and other-worldly.” Her translations include The Abduction (Maram Al-Masri, 2023), Beyond Elsewhere (Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, 2016), winner of a Hemingway Grant; Ce que nous portons (Dorianne Laux, 2014); Birnam Wood (José Manuel Cardona, 2018); and Walt Whitman’s Civil War Writings for WhitmanWeb (2015). She has also translated Rimbaud, Baudelaire, André Breton, René Depestre, Ernest Pépin, Aloysius Bertrand, Eric Sarner, Jean-Claude Renard, Nicolas Grenier, John Ashbery, John FitzGerald and Christiane Singer. Her work as been translated into 19 languages. She holds a Masters in American Literature from the Sorbonne, worked as a translator for the Canadian Embassy in Paris, and taught at Hamilton College & LMU. She also writes children stories and co-wrote with John FitzGerald the screenplay Primate, based on his novel. Acting credits include Chocolat, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Jurassic World, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Muppets Most Wanted, Serendipity, and Happy Feet 2. Born in Paris and raised all over Europe, she has lived in Switzerland, France, England, Wales, Monaco, Germany, Spain, and the United States.

Writers Retreats:

Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference and Bookfair

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Poetry International (San Diego State University Press, 2022)

Days of Clear Light (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2021)

Pratik: Celebrating Baudelaire 200 Years (Nirala Publications, 2021)

Pratik: The Ghosts of Paradise - Special Los Angeles Double Issue (Nirala Publications, 2021)

Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing: Poems of Protest and Revolution (University of Hawaii Press, 2020)

RESISTENCIA: Poems of Protest and Revolution (Tin House Books, 2020)

Poetry International 25/26 (San Diego State University Press, 2019)

Pratik : A Magazine of Contemporary Writing (Nirala Publications, 2019)

My Body, My Words: a collection of bodies (Big Table Publishing Company, 2018)

The Plume Anthology of Poetry 6 (MadHat Press, 2018)

Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017)

Plume Interviews 1 (MadHat Press, 2017)

The Plume Anthology of Poetry 5 (MadHat Press, 2017)

Even the Daybreak: 35 Years of Salmon Poetry (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2016)

Red Sky | poetry on the global epidemic of violence against women (Sable Books, 2016)

The Plume Anthology of Poetry 4 (MadHat Press, 2016)

Dead and Undead Poems: Zombies, Ghosts, Vampires and Devils (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)

Fathers and What Must Be Said (Rebel Books, 2015)

Intimacy: An Anthology (Jacar Press, 2015)

Rubicon: Words and Art inspired by Oscar Wilde's Profundis (Sybaritic Press, 2015)

Spirit of the Horse: An Equine Anthology (Finishing Line Press, 2015)

Van Gogh's Ear - Volume 9 (The Original Van Gogh's Ear) (French Connection Press, 2015)

Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Beyond Baroque, 2015)

Beyond the Lyric Moment (Tebot Bach, 2014)

Love's Peripeteias (New Visionary Press Cooperative, 2014)

Near Kin: Words and Art Inspired by Octavia E. Butler (Sybaritic Press, 2014)

Read Women: An Anthology (Locked Horn Press, 2014)

The Plume Anthology of Poetry (Plume, 2014)

The Plume Anthology of Poetry 3 (MadHat Press, 2014)

Thrush Poetry Journal: an Anthology of the first two years (Thrush Press, 2014)

World Poetry Yearbook 2013 (Earth Culture Press, 2014)

For Rhino in a Shrinking World (The Poets Printery, 2013)

From the Four Chambered Heart: In tribute to Anais Nin (Sybaritic Press, 2013)

Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2011)

The Million-Line Poem (Tupelo Press, 2011)

Illuminations: Expressions of the Spiritual Experience (Celestial Arts) (Celestial Arts Publishing, 2006)

Books:

The Abduction (White Pine Press, 2023)

Birnam Wood (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2018)

Beyond Elsewhere (White Pine Press, 2016)

Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2016)

Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2013)

The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press, 2006)

Journals:

Agenda

AGNI

Anastamos

Anomaly

Anomalous Press

Asian Signature

Askew Poetry

Asymptote

Backstory

Barnwood International Poetry Magazine

Blue Fifth Review

Blue Nib

Brooklyn Rail

California State Poetry Quarterly

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal

Colorado Review

Connotation Press: An Online Artifact

DoveTales

Drunken Boat

Dublin Poetry Review

Dublin Review of Books

East West: A Poetry Annual

Edgar Allan Poet

Exchanges

Fjords Review

from the fishouse

Fulcrum

Gargoyle Magazine

Hayden's Ferry Review

JMWW

Knot Magazine

Lascaux Review

Levure Litteraire

Live Encounters

London Magazine

Los Angeles Review

Lothlorien Poetry Journal

Mad Hatters' Review

MadHat Lit

Maintenant

Manoa

Markaz Review

Mediterranean Poetry

Mom Egg Review

Mythic Passages

National Translation Month

On the Seawall

One

Other Terrain

Periodico de Poesia

Pirene's Fountain

Plume

Poetic Diversity

Poetry International

qarrtsiluni

Saint Julian Press

Salzburg Poetry Review

Speechless the Magazine

Spillway

TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics

Taos Journal of Poetry & Art

Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments

The American Journal of Poetry

The Blue Max Review

The Enchanting Verses Literary Review

The High Window

The Irish Literary Times

The Mas Tequila Review

The Original Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology

The Passionate Transitory

The Poetry Bus

The Toronto Quarterly

The Warwick Review

THRUSH Poetry Journal

Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature

Truck

Verse Daily

Washington Square Review

Waxwing

World Literature Today

Writer's Digest

Prizes won:

2023 Albertine and FACE Foundation Grant for The Abduction - 2023, 2022 & 2020 Independent Press Award - 2022 & 2020 NYC Big Book Award - 2019 Naji Naaman Literary Prize - 2019 Julie Suk Honor - 2019 Pinnacle Book Award - 2019 & 2017 Best Book Awards in Poetry - 2017 International Book Award in Poetry - 2016 Pinnacle Book Award - 2015 USA Best Book Award - 2014 Pinnacle Book Award - 3 Readers' Favorite Book Awards in Poetry - 2014 Poiesis Award of Honour - Eric Hoffer Award and Julie Suk Award, Finalist - Lascaux Prize in Collected Poetry, Finalist - Hemingway Grant for Beyond Elsewhere. JUDGE: 2022 ALTA Translation Award in Poetry; 2017 Jacar Press Full Length Competition; 2016 PEN Center USA Translation Award; 2015 Writers' Digest Challenge; 2014 Rabindranath Tagore Award. Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles for contribution toward the preservation of Indigenous Culture and Humanity - National Foreign Language Honor Society Member - Editor’s Choice: The Enchanting Verses Literary Review (Issue XVI) - W.D. Gwawdodyn Finalist - Multiple-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. FELLOWSHIPS Universidad Internacional de Andalucía (Baeza, Spain) - Goethe-Institut (Bremen, Germany) - Hamilton College (New York).

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

European American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish

Born in:

Paris

France

Raised in:

all over Europe

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Last update: May 12, 2024