Patricio Ferrari

Patricio Ferrari (polyglot poet, translator, editor) is an Argentine-Italian whose journey across continents and languages began at 16. He earned a PhD in linguistics from the University of Lisbon and held a postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University, where he transcribed selections of Fernando Pessoa’s unpublished English poetry. In 2025, he was awarded the Fence Modern Poets Series Prize for Mud Songs, the first volume of Elsehere—a multilingual trilogy exploring how each language’s sounds, structures, and meanings shape identity. Ferrari calls this heterophony: the embodiment of another self through an adopted tongue. His translations for New Directions include works by Pessoa and Alejandra Pizarnik. He teaches in the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College.