Richard Pierce

Richard Pierce is a translator and sculptor from the San Francisco Bay Area. In his early twenties he lived in Athens for four years, where he was a teacher and journalist. Since then he has lived in Verona, Italy, working initially as an English teacher, then as an editor for Mondadori Publishers, and currently as a freelance translator. In 2005 he began to translate contemporary Greek poetry and since 2010 has been translating the body of work of Stamatis Polenakis. His translations have...See more

Richard Pierce is a translator and sculptor from the San Francisco Bay Area. In his early twenties he lived in Athens for four years, where he was a teacher and journalist. Since then he has lived in Verona, Italy, working initially as an English teacher, then as an editor for Mondadori Publishers, and currently as a freelance translator. In 2005 he began to translate contemporary Greek poetry and since 2010 has been translating the body of work of Stamatis Polenakis. His translations have appeared in Poetry Review, Ars Poetica, Poem, Cross-Section, Austerity Measures, and the online magazine Greek Poetry Now. See less