Astrid Alben
Astrid Alben is a Dutch-born British poet, editor and translator. She is the author of several poetry collections and her poems have been translated into many languages including Chinese, Maltese, Slovene and Romanian. Alben often appears at literary festivals throughout Europe, including the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival. Alben was the co-founder and artistic director of the arts and sciences initiative PARS between 2002 and 2018, curating site-specific events which combined theatre, art installation and scientific experiments, in spaces including the Serpentine Gallery and Central Saint Martins in London, and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. She was elected Chair of Poetry London in 2021 and is Commissioning Editor for Literature in Translation for Prototype Publishing. Biography 
Alben was born in Loosdrecht, the Netherlands and raised in Lagos, Nigeria and Hawkhurst, Kent, where she attended Cranbrook Grammar School. Abandoning a law degree at Leiden University, she switched to read English Literature and Philosophy at Edinburgh University. She currently divides her time between London and Amsterdam and is married to the British poet, Philip Hancock. Works 
Alben is the author of four collections of poetry. She has also curated and edited the anthology series Findings on... and site-specific events combining theatre, art installation and scientific experiments. Her poems, reviews and essays have been featured in many anthologies, including the TLS, Granta and Poetry Review. Books 

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 2022: Little Dead Rabbit. Anthologies 

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Translations 

 2022: Island mountain glacier. Awards 
Her translation of Island mountain glacier (Dutch: Eiland berg gletsjer) by Anne Vegter won an English PEN Translates Award in 2021. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Critical reception 
Plainspeak was described as reclaiming 'the radical possibility of reinventing ourselves through new and surprising language, which can be done just by speaking in the clearest, plainest form' by SPAMzine. Little Dead Rabbit, a collaboration with graphic designer Zigmunds Lapsa, was described as 'an innovative combination of concrete poetry and abstract handmade die cuts.' References 

British poets
British women poets
 21st-century British poets
British editors
British women editors
British translators
Dutch poets
Dutch women poets
Dutch editors
Dutch translators

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people