Daisy Rockwell

Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. She has translated numerous classic and contemporary literary works from Hindi and Urdu into English. Her translations have been awarded the International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, and the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation. Her translations have been honored with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and PEN Translates. Her novel Alice Sees Ghosts and Mixed Metaphors, her collection of poems about translation, are both forthcoming from Bloomsbury India in 2025. Her memoir Our Friend, Art is forthcoming from Pushkin Press in 2026.