Leo Boix

Leo Boix is a Latinx bilingual poet born in Argentina who lives and works in the UK. Boix has been included in many anthologies, such as Ten: Poets of the New Generation (Bloodaxe), Islands Are But Mountains: Contemporary Poetry from Great Britain (Platypus Press), The Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology 2019 (Eyewear Publishing) and Un Nuevo Sol: British Latinx Writers (flipped eye). His poems have appeared in The Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Ambit, The Manchester Review, and elsewhere. He is a fellow of The Complete Works Program and co-director of Invisible Presence, an Arts Council England national scheme to nurture new voices of Latinx writers in the UK. Leo is a board member of Magma Poetry, co-editor of its Resistencia issue showcasing the best Latin American and Latinx writing, and an advisory board member of the Poetry Translation Centre in London.
Boix is the recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize 2019. His debut English collection will be published by Chatto & Windus (Penguin/Random House) in 2021.