आर्लीन ज़ीद / Arlene Zide
Born, 1940 in New York City. Former editor of Primavera. Currently putting together an anthology of Chicago area women poets, Chicago Fire, with Carolyn Rodgers.
Work published in a variety of journals in the US, Canada and in India such as Meridians, Rattapallax, Evening Street Review, 13th Moon, Colorado Review, California Quarterly, Rhino, Xanadu, Primavera, A Room of Her Own, Oyez Review, Off Our Backs, and The Women’s Review of Books; in anthologies such as Kiss Me Goodnight; Where We Find Ourselves; In Love United and Rough Places Plain: Poems of the Mountains; [on-line: The Pedestal Magazine, ChicagoPoetry.com; R-K-V–RY; Red River Review etc.] Her translations of Hindi poets have appeared in e.g., Exquisite Corpse, The Bitter Oleander, Salt Hill, Rhino, Paintbrush; Smartish Pace, PerContra, ezra.com etc.; and in the Everyman Series: Indian Love Poems, Oxford Anthology of Indian Poets, Chicago Review, Modern Poetry in Translation (UK), International Poetry Review, Malahat Review, Blue Unicorn, Chase Park and in Language for a New Century, (Norton Anthology).