Sabine Huynh is a Saigon-born French poet, novelist, essayist and literary translator who has lived in many different countries, including France, where she grew up. She has published a dozen books. Her poetry collection Kvar lo won France’s 2017 CoPo Poetry Prize, and her novel Elvis à la radio won the 2023 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Prize for Autobiography and the 2023 Prize for Exile Literature. She has translated over twenty-five books, mostly poetry collections, including works by Gwendolyn Brooks, Laynie Browne, Carla Harryman, Rodger Kamenetz, Ilya Kaminsky, Ada Limón, Uri Orlev, Alice Oswald, Diane Seuss, and Anne Sexton. She won the 2022 Alain Bosquet Poetry Prize for her translation of Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic. Three of her books have been translated into English by Amy Hollowell: Pen Mark on Soft Paper: A Letter to the Poet Allen Ginsberg, Into the Turning: Emptyfull Poetry, and Setting Sail: 60 Sonnets for the Boat People. Her poetry collection Herbyers was a finalist for the 2024 Guillaume-Apollinaire award, the oldest and most prestigious French poetry prize.