Egan Garr

Egan Garr is a poet and translator from the American South. They have lived in Amsterdam since 2001, where they co-founded the small press Versal. Garr is the author of two chapbooks, Terrane (MIEL, 2015) and The Preservationist Documents (Pilot Books, 2012), and their writings on literary community have been anthologized in Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Milkweed Editions, 2016) and Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine (Atticus Books, 2013). Garr translates contemporary Dutch and Flemish poetry into English, including work by Simone Atangana Bekono, Astrid Haerens, and Iduna Paalman.