Patty Crane, 2004 MFA in Writing

Crane was featured in the January/February 2020 issue of Poets & Writers, in a special section highlighting ten debut poets.

Crane’s full-length collection, Bell I Wake To (fall 2019), won the 2018 Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry. Her translations of Swedish poet and Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer have appeared in American Poetry Review, Blackbird, PEN Poetry Series, Poetry Daily, and The New York Times, among others. Bright Scythe, a bilingual volume of her translations, was published by Sarabande Press in 2015.