Patricio Ferrari is an Argentine-born polyglot poet, literary translator, and editor. He holds an MA from the Sorbonne Nouvelle, an MFA from Brown University, and a PhD from the University of Lisbon. As a translator and editor, he has published more than twenty books, including the complete English editions of Fernando Pessoa’s three principal heteronyms—Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis—co-translated with Margaret Jull Costa, and Alejandra Pizarnik’s The Galloping Hour: French Poems, co-translated with Forrest Gander, all from New Directions. His other book-length translations include poetry by Frank Stanford, Martin Corless-Smith, W. S. Merwin, and Laynie Browne from English, co-translated with Graciela S. Guglielmone, and by Juan Arabia from Spanish. In 2026, Ferrari received the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize for Mud Songs, the first volume of his multilingual Elsehere trilogy. Based in New York City since 2017, he teaches at Rutgers University–Newark and in the MFA Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College. He hosts World Poetry Salon, a collaboration between Limelight Poetry (founded by the poet Wang Yin) and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library of The New York Public Library.