Ani Gjika is an Albanian-born poet, literary translator, writer, and author of Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press, 2013), a finalist for the 2011 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and 2011 May Sarton New Hampshire Book Prize. Her translation from the Albanian of Luljeta Lleshanaku’s Negative Space (2018) was published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK where it was Poetry Book Society’s Recommended Translation and shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize and by New Directions in the US where it was a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She is also the translator of Kosovar poet Xhevdet Bajraj’s play, Slaying the Mosquito (Laertes, 2017) and poetry, We Fall Like Children (Laertes, 2018). Gjika’s honors include awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, English PEN, the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship, Framingham State University’s Miriam Levine Reader Award, and the Robert Fitzgerald Translation Prize.