Margaret Randall (New York, 1936) is a writer, translator, photographer and social activist. She has published more than 150 books of poetry, essay and oral history. Among her most recent poetry collections are: The Morning After: Poetry and Prose for a Post-Truth World, Against Atrocity and Time’s Language: Selected Poems 1959-2018 (all from Wings Press). A forthcoming collection, Out of Violence into Poetry, will be released by Wings in September 2021. A book of brief essays, Thinking about Thinking, will be released by Casa Urraca Press in the same month. Randall lived in Latin America for 23 years (Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua). In 2019 she was given the “Poet of Two Hemispheres” award by Poesía en Paralelo Cero, Quito, Ecuador. That same year Cuba’s Casa de las Américas gave her its prestigious Haydée Santamaría medal. In March 2020, AWP named her recipient of the year of its George Garrett Award and in June Chapman University awarded her its Paulo Freire Prize. For more on Margaret Randall,
see her website.
