Nina Bogin was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She studied at Kirkland College and received a B.A. degree from New York University. She is married with two grown daughters and has lived in eastern France, near the Swiss and German borders, since 1976, where she works as a translator of art history and literary criticism and teaches English at the University of Technology of Belfort-Montbéliard. Her poems have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in the United States, Canada, England and France. She received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1989 and published her first volume of poems, In the North (Graywolf), in the same year. Anvil Press Poetry (UK) has published her two subsequent volumes, The Winter Orchards (2001) and The Lost Hare (2012). Her translation of the The Illiterate (L'Analphabète), an autobiographical narrative by the Hungarian-Swiss writer Agota Kristof, will be published by CB Editions (UK) in 2014.