Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché is the author of five books of poetry, most recently IN THE LATENESS OF THE WORLD (Penguin Press, 2020), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and a prose book, WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE: A MEMOIR OF WITNESS AND RESISTANCE (Penguin Press, 2019). She is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.