Samira Negrouche was born in Algiers where she still lives. She is a poet and translator, who trained as a a doctor, but has privileged her poetry over the practice of medicine for several years. She has frequently worked with visual artists and musicians, including the violinist Marianne Piketty and the theorbist Bruno Helstroffer. Her books include A l’ombre de Grenade (2003), Le Jazz des oliviers (2010), Six arbres de fortune autour de ma baignoire (2017) and Quai 2/1 (2019) – which arose from collaboration with the aforementioned musicians. Poems of hers, in Marilyn Hacker’s translation, have appeared in journals including Banipal, Pleiades, Upstreet and PN Review; and in translation online on Words Without Borders and Arab Lit.
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