Ellen Doré Watson

Who is Ellen Doré Watson?

Ellen Doré Watson is an American poet, translator and teacher.

Watson is author of five collections of poems, most recently, Dogged Hearts. Her book, Ladder Music, was a New York/New England Award winner from Alice James Books. Other honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant and a Rona Jaffe Writers Award.

Watson has translated eleven books, including The Alphabet in the Park: The Selected poems of Adélia Prado, for which she was awarded an NEA Translation Fellowship and interviewed by BOMB Magazine. In addition to her Brazilian Portuguese translations, the Winter 1999 issue of Modern Poetry in Translation features contemporary Palestinian poetry she co-translated from the Arabic with Saadi Simawe.

Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including Orion Magazine, Ploughshares, Boulevard, The Cortland Review, AGNI, The American Poetry Review, Tin House, and The New Yorker, and in anthologies including After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events, Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English, and Never Before: Poems About First Experiences.