André Naffis-Sahely is the author of two collections of poetry, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin, 2017) and High Desert (Bloodaxe, 2022), as well as the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2020). His poems have been translated into Arabic, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Latvian, Romanian and Spanish. He received the Cholmondeley Award for Poets in 2026.

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In addition to his poetry, he has translated works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Abdellatif Laâbi, Rachid Boudjedra, Ribka Sibhatu and Fabio Franzin. His critical publications include the monograph, Michael Hofmann: An Extended Passport Application (LSU Press, 2025), as well as the co-edited volumes, Mick Imlah: Selected Prose (Peter Lang, 2015), and The Palm Beach Effect: Reflections on Michael Hofmann (CB Editions, 2013). He is Assistant Professor of English, French and Italian at the University of California, Davis, where he teaches on the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

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