Carmen Bugan, George Orwell Prize Fellow, is an award-winning author of ten books that include memoir, essays, and criticism. Her work has been translated into several languages, gathered international praise, and has been widely anthologized. Lilies from America: New and Selected Poems, won a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, and her book of essays on politics and poetics, Poetry and the Language of Oppression was named "an essential book for writers" by Poets and Writers magazine. She wrote a highly praised monograph on Seamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile. Her most recent collections of poems are Time Being and Tristia. Carmen's memoir, Burying the Typewriter, won the Bread Loaf Nonfiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, was BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and has been featured on NPR, ABC, PRI and the BBC. Carmen was educated at the University of Michigan (BA), Lancaster University, UK (MFA), and Oxford University, UK (PhD). She received fellowships from Wolfson College Oxford, Arts Council England, and the Hawthornden Retreat for Writers.