Zoë Skoulding is an award-winning poet and literary critic interested in translation, sound, and ecology. She is a professor of poetry and creative writing at Bangor University, North Wales. Her 2019 collection "Footnotes to Water" (Seren), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020. Her latest book, "A Marginal Sea," is forthcoming from Carcanet Press. Her critical work includes two monographs, Contemporary Women’s Poetry and Urban Space: Experimental Cities (2013), and Poetry & Listening: The Noise of Lyric (2020).
Skoulding's current research project is "Transatlantic Translation: Poetry in Circulation and Practice Across Languages." She was editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales 2008-2014 and co-founded the (North) Wales International Poetry Festival in 2012.
Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures and the Robert P. Hubbard Professorship of Poetry.