Ani Gjika
Bio
Ani Gjika is the author of the memoir An Unruled Body, winner of Restless Books’ 2021 New Immigrant Writing Prize. She is also the author and literary translator of eight books and chapbooks of poetry, including her debut poetry collection, Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press, 2013), a finalist for the 2011 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her translation from the Albanian of Luljeta Lleshanaku’s Negative Space (New Directions and Bloodaxe Books, 2018) won an English PEN Award and was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize, PEN America Award, and Best Translated Book Award. She is a graduate of Boston University’s MFA program where she was a 2011 Robert Pinsky Global fellow, and GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator program where she was a 2019 Pauline Scheer Fellow. She teaches social studies and literature at Framingham High School in Massachusetts.