Calvin Olsen is an internationally-published writer and translator originally from Idaho and currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His work has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Asymptote, The London Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, and The National Poetry Review, among many other journals and anthologies. His translation of Portuguese poet João Luís Barreto Guimarães's ninth collection, Mediterranean, won the 2020 Willow Run Poetry Book Award and is forthcoming from Hidden River Arts (Philadelphia). Calvin's work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets, and he's the recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship and an American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship.
Calvin is currently a doctoral student in the Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media at NC State University and a Research and Instruction fellow in the Innovation Studio at NCSU Libraries. His research interests lie at the intersections of electronic literature, visual/bodily rhetoric, the medical humanities, and all things Frankenstein (to name a few). He also holds an MA in English & Comparative Literature from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston Univeristy, where he studied under Robert Pinsky, David Ferry, and Nobel laureate Louise Glück (right?!). He has taught courses in comparative literature, composition, creative writing, English, and professional writing at a number of universities (and Bunker Hill Community College, where Robin Williams worked in Good Will Hunting.).
Calvin is currently a doctoral student in the Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media at NC State University and a Research and Instruction fellow in the Innovation Studio at NCSU Libraries. His research interests lie at the intersections of electronic literature, visual/bodily rhetoric, the medical humanities, and all things Frankenstein (to name a few). He also holds an MA in English & Comparative Literature from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston Univeristy, where he studied under Robert Pinsky, David Ferry, and Nobel laureate Louise Glück (right?!). He has taught courses in comparative literature, composition, creative writing, English, and professional writing at a number of universities (and Bunker Hill Community College, where Robin Williams worked in Good Will Hunting.).