Michael Favala Goldman
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Michael Favala Goldman is a translator of Danish literature, a poet, educator, and jazz clarinetist. Over 130 of Michael’s translations and poems have appeared in periodicals such as The Harvard Review, The Los Angeles Review, and The New Yorker. He has translated 17 books of Danish poetry and prose, including Dependency (book three of The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen), which was selected among New York Times’ Ten Best Books of 2021. Goldman’s five books of original poetry include Small Sovereign (2021), which won first prize at the 2022 Los Angeles Book Festival. He lives in Northampton, MA, where he has been running bi-monthly poetry critique groups since 2018.