Kevin Holden is a poet, critic, and translator. He is currently a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He is the author of seven books and chapbooks of poetry, including PINK NOISE (Nightboat Books), SOLAR, which was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, and BIRCH, which won the Ahsahta Chapbook Award. His translations of poetry from French, German, and Russian have also been published, and he has recently completed a translation of Jean Daive’s THE FIGURE OUTWARD (L'ÉNONCIATEUR DES EXTRÊMES), forthcoming from Black Square Editions. He studied at Harvard (AB), Cambridge (MPhil), Iowa (MFA), and Yale (PhD). At the Writers' Workshop he was an Iowa Arts Fellow and then taught as a Provost Postgraduate Fellow. His dissertation in comparative literature at Yale concerns nonparaphrasable meaning in poetry and its relation to alterity, considering the work of several poets and philosophers of a number of European and American languages writing mostly in the 19th and 20th Centuries. He works also on ontology, modern art, and queer theory. He has taught at Bard, Brown, and Harvard and is currently the Writer-in-Residence of Kirkland House at Harvard. He is also an activist and cares a great deal about trees.