J. C. Todd (1943, New York, USA) is author of six books of poetry, including Beyond Repair, a special selection for the Able Muse Poetry Book Award, and a bilingual (English-Lithuanian) collection, What Kept Me Awake?/Kas neleido užmigti. She is a co-editor of the ground-breaking anthology Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War, forthcoming in the USA in Fall, 2025, and editor of on-line anthologies of English translations of Lithuanian poems (Contemporary Lithuanian Poetry in Translation 2002) and Latvian poems (To Be The Root 2005), both published in The Drunken Boat, Issues 2.4; 5.4. Her fellowships in poetry include Bemis Center (2016), the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (2014), and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (1998) and her awards include those from the National Poetry Society of the UK (2022), the International Writing Center of Salem College (USA 2016), and the Poetry Society of America (shortlisted 2015, 2007). Her poems have appeared widely in U.S. anthologies and journals, including The American Poetry Review and The Paris Review and have been translated and published in Lithuanian, Italian, and Bosnian.
