https://www.alex-niemi.com/home daily 1.0 2023-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1583685714200-NCHFDNR8LZPOUYI6L829/finland.jpg Home https://www.alex-niemi.com/about daily 0.75 2026-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/128d4b82-688f-4d85-a066-9da36cdcb0ac/%C2%A9+Fondation+Jan+Michalski%2C+Tonatiuh+Ambrosetti+%282%29_A4.jpg About - About Alex is a poet and award-winning translator. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts translation fellow, she works from the French, Russian, and Spanish. Her work has been published in Harper’s, Poetry Daily, Columbia Journal, and Best Literary Translations 2025, among others. She is the author of Elephant (dancing girl press), and her most recent book-length translation, The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez (Dorothy Project), was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize and named a finalist for the French-American Foundation’s Translation Award for Fiction. Her translation from the Russian of For the Shrew by Anna Glazova (Zephyr Press), won the Heldt Prize and AATSEEL Book Award for Best Poetry Translation. She has held residencies at the Michalski Foundation, Dora Maar House, Translation House Looren, and Collège européen des traducteurs littéraires de Seneffe. Alex is a translation co-editor for Another Chicago Magazine and the project coordinator for the SALT Project at the University of Chicago. In the fall of 2026, she is attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she will serve as poetry co-editor for The Iowa Review. Photo © Fondation Jan Michalski, Tonatiuh Ambrosetti. https://www.alex-niemi.com/poetry daily 0.75 2026-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/a5b2e01d-c0ca-46fb-a8cd-04c11c3228dd/Sestets11052023_1024x1024%402x.jpeg Poetry Chapbook Elephant, Dancing Girl Press, 2020. Print. Pamphlet “Sestets,” Ben Tinterstices Editions, 2023. Print. Journal Publications “I have very little to say,” and “given the choice to dream or sleep,” Midwest Review, Issue 13, 2026. Print. “I HAVE NO CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT,” Columbia Review, Vol. 105 No. 1, 2025. “Dear Reader,” Midway Journal, Vol. 18 Issue 4, 2024. “Custom Earths,” Columbia Journal, 2019. (Fall 2019 Poetry Contest Finalist.) “Remembering, I Hazard a Guess,” Horse Less Review, 2016. “Elephant,” Prelude, 2016. “Broomswallow,” Dusie, Issue 18, 2016. “Untitled,” Banango Street, Issue 9, 2014. https://www.alex-niemi.com/translation daily 0.75 2026-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/b5f69647-99e0-47d6-a7e8-7d7711a1d6c5/VazquezCover_border.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/8a2ca90e-6670-47ad-a398-c575be4b6591/HekateCover.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/c3f3858c-68e5-48cb-809a-a8b8707dee97/shrew+cover.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/95513255-877f-4297-acc5-570ffc829443/John+cage+cover.jpeg https://www.alex-niemi.com/contact-me daily 0.75 2023-10-02 https://www.alex-niemi.com/editing daily 0.75 2026-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639445498648-FA1Y1HMZFVM67KOTP48M/cover_9781609457297__id2068_w240_t1623067536__1x.jpeg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639445671890-SB5ESVJTKFWK9CTGT5WI/cover_9781609456764__id1914_w240_t1606381977__1x.jpeg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639445776814-H03QFNZLH2MV8J1Z29GK/cover_9781609456603__id1908_w140_t1614858284__1x.jpeg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639446080482-TPJ3EMTKN5RXBQV8UY7O/cover_9781609456474__id1855_w240_t1608041002__1x.jpeg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639446267146-YJ6Y2TMG2V6X2L24WMD9/cover_9781609456146__id1852_w140_t1595254634__1x.jpeg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639446413405-C8DVBZ86F6N7SBIT8FI9/cover_9781609455859__id1659_w240_t1568192669__1x.jpeg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639446562666-75SMRPGKE6B2SKNG1S3Z/cover_9781609455798__id1632_w240_t1563793462__1x.jpeg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639446866709-TE5U2HK5ZSXTU4B12XC3/cover_9781609456931__id2006_w240_t1622815593__1x.jpeg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639447039501-39LQDE0HWG468HSUL9BL/cover_9781609454920__id1471_w240_t1543845586__1x.jpeg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639444819397-1GNI5ONCY3CN8ME9P307/cover_9781609457167__id2022_w240_t1622814448__1x.jpg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639445079362-33J2AKS16DDARI29OE2D/cover_9781609457075__id2029_w240_t1613739784__1x.jpg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/1639445877494-R7YDYH71092LUT5AJOVN/cover_9781609456535__id2012_w240_t1622814996__1x.jpeg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/b1956c39-726e-498f-af89-d7845e0e67ac/scattered.jpg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/eb9476d2-b112-499c-a15f-10adfa234168/lost.jpg Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e651d05a45e2855841a5394/7bbc7fb9-41e3-44c5-92d7-dcb0d6ecc9ce/notruss.jpg Editing https://www.alex-niemi.com/new-page daily 0.75 2026-06-11