André Naffis-Sahely is the author of two collections of poetry, The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin UK, 2017) and High Desert (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), as well as the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2020). He has translated works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Abdellatif Laâbi, Rachid Boudjedra, Ribka Sibhatu and Fabio Franzin. His areas of specialty include Francophone and Italophone literature from the Caribbean and Maghreb, as well as poetry originally written in Venetian and Istrian. 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 served as the poetry editor of Ambit (2018-2020) and Poetry London (2021-2024).

 

He is Assistant Professor of English, French and Italian at the University of California, Davis, where he also teaches on the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

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