Nancy Naomi Carlson is a poet, translator and editor based in Virginia. Her first collection of poetry, Kings Highway, was a co-winner for the Washington Writers' Publishing House competition. Complications of the Heart won the Texas Review Press' Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize and Imperfect Seal of Lips was selected for the Tennessee Chapbook Prize. Featured on Poetry Daily, her work has also appeared in Poet Lore, Poetry, Praire Schooner, Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Poetry Review, Texas Review, among others. For Seagull Books, she has translated Abourahman A. Waberi and Suzanne Dracius.