Clare Cavanagh

Clare Cavanagh is Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature at Northwestern University. Her book Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West is forthcoming from Yale University Press. She has translated ten prize-winning volumes of Polish poetry and prose, most notably the work of Wislawa Szymborska and Adam Zagajewski. She is currently working on an authorized biography of Czeslaw Milosz (Farrar Straus Giroux).