Jody Gladding

is a poet and translator living in East Calais, Vermont.  Her most recent poetry collection is Rooms and Their Airs.  She has translated many books from French, including The Serpent of Stars by Jean Giono and Small Lives by Pierre Michon, which won the 2008 French–American Foundation Translation Prize.  She has also won the Yale Younger Poets Prize and Whiting Writers Award.  She teaches at Vermont College of the Fine Arts.