Samantha Zighelboim

Samantha Zighelboim is the author of The Fat Sonnets (Argos Books, 2018), and the co-translator of Equestrian Monuments by Luis Chaves (After Hours Editions, 2022). She is a 2017 New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts (NYFA/NYSCA) Fellow in Poetry, a recipient of a Face Out grant from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), and the recipient of the 2016 John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation from The Poetry Foundation. Her poems, translations and essays have appeared in POETRY, Boston Review, Lit Hub, The Guardian, PEN Poetry Series, Guernica, and Fanzine, among others. Samantha lives in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Columbia University and Parsons School of Design at The New School.

Cover of 'The Fat Sonnets' - an empty pink plate with pink fork on the left and pink knife on the right. Three leaves are laid out in front of the plate in a straight line.
The Fat Sonnets (Argos Books,2018)
Cover of 'Equestrian Monuments'
Equestrian Monuments (After Hours Editions, 2022)

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A Poet's Life: On Making, On Being, On Surviving with Julia Guez '11 and Professor Samantha Zighelboim '11

A Poet's Life is a series where we talk with Columbia poets about everything from living as a poet to making a living as a poet.

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After Hours Editions To Publish ‘Equestrian Monuments,’ Co-Translated by Julia Guez '11 and Samantha Zighelboim '11

Equestrian Monuments, a poetry collection by Luis Chaves and co-translated by two alumnae, Julia Guez ‘11 and Assistant Professor Samantha Zighelboim ‘11, will be published by After Hours Editions early 2022.