C. Francis Fisher
C. Francis Fisher is a poet and translator. Her first book of translations, In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour, appeared with World Poetry Books in 2024. She has been supported by fellowships from Yaddo and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her work has appeared in the Yale Review, the Adroit Journal, and the Los Angeles Review of Books among others.
This February, Semiotext(e) reissued Lee & Elaine, one of her two novels, originally published in 2002. Despite the contemporary tone Rower achieves, this couldn’t have been written today.
Joyce Mansour (1928-1986) was born to Jewish-Arab parents in England and spent her early years in Cairo, Egypt. In 1953, Mansour settled in Paris. Mansour is generally considered one of the most important female surrealist poets; in her lifetime she published 16 books of poetry as well as prose and theatre pieces.