Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. Her most recent books of poetry include Win These Posters and Other Unrelated Prizes Inside, WHERE SHADOWS WILL: SELECTED POEMS 1988-2008 (City Lights Publishers, 2009), and Natural Light. Her translations from French include Danielle Collobert's It Then, Collobert's Journals, and Jean Daive's A Woman with Several Lives. She has received awards from the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry, The Fund for Poetry, the Creative Work Fund and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.