Luljeta Lleshanaku (Albania, IWP 1999, Visitor 2017) is the author of seven poetry collections in Albanian and nine collections in translation. Her poems have been published in four English-language volumes, including Haywire: New & Selected Poems (2011) from Bloodaxe Books in the UK, and Fresco (2002) and Child of Nature (2010) from New Directions in the US. Both presses will release her collection Negative Space in 2018. Lleshanaku has been the recipient of Albania's National Silver Pen Prize in 2000, the Kristal Vilenice Prize in 2009, and the PEN Albania 2016 award.