BA, Virginia Tech; MFA, University of Houston
Conor Bracken is the author of the poetry collections Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press, 2017), selected by Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2017 Frost Place Chapbook Competition, and The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (Diode Editions, 2021), winner of a 2020 Diode Editions Poetry Prize. He is also the translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center, 2019) and Jean D'Amérique's No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022), a finalist for the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His translation of Jean D'Amérique's Workshop of Silence was published with Vanderbilt's Global Black Voices in Translation series in 2025; his translation of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's The Burial and other short prose is forthcoming with UVA Press's CARAF series in 2026; and his second full-length collection of poems, All-American Dad, is forthcoming from Bridwell Press in 2026.
His work has earned support from Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, Cornell's Institute for Comparative Modernities, the de Groot Foundation, the Frost Place, Inprint, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and can be found in places like the American Poetry Review, BOMB, Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, New England Review, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and Sixth Finch.
You can find more at conorbracken.com
