Miriam Åkervall is a poet and translator. Their poetry appears in Colorado Review, Black Warrior Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. Their translation of Astrakanerna (The Garden of the Dead) by Marie Lundquist won an Honorable Mention in the 2024 Nadia Christensen Translation Prize and is forthcoming with Ugly Duckling Presse. Miriam’s writing was honored by an Academy of American Poets University Prize, and nominations for Best New Poets, Best Literary Translations, and an AWP Intro Award. Their work has received support from the Vermont Studio Center, The American Scandinavian Foundation, and the American Literary Translators Association. They live in Moscow, Idaho, where they serve as the 2025-2027 Moscow Poet Laureate.