Rebekah Smith

Rebekah Smith is a writer, editor, and translator. Her translations include Susana Thénon’s Ova Completa (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021), a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Victoria Cóccaro’s The Sea (DoubleCross Press, 2023), and Sergio Chejfec’s The Month of the Flies (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024, co-translated with Silvina López Medin). Her chapbooks include One Woman Cult ( *belladonna collaborative, 2022) and The Plagiotropics (Dirt Editions, forthcoming 2026). A long-time editor at Ugly Duckling Presse, she has also published several handmade editions of poetic texts and experiments with her side project Johan Johan Editions, and recently founded Err Editions, based in Berlin, Germany.

Rebekah holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. Her research focuses on poetry and performance across the US, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union, and is grounded in feminist methodologies, deep archival engagement, translation, and the comparative study of minor literatures and poetic practices across languages and geographies. Her scholarly work has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies and Interventions.