ROSE STYRON is a poet, journalist, translator, and international human rights activist. She’s published four volumes of poetry, From Summer to Summer, Thieves’ Afternoon (Viking), By Vineyard Light (Rizzoli), and Fierce Day (Friessen Press), plus a book of translations of Russian poetry for Viking. She traveled widely for Amnesty International and other human rights organizations, chairing AIUSA’s National Advisory Council, PEN’s Freedom to Write Committee, and the RFK Human Rights Award. She is currently on the advisory board of Johns Hopkins Hospital Health and Human Rights, and is a board member of the Paris Review, the Academy of American Poets, and the Association to Benefit Children. A variety of Rose’s articles and poems have appeared in national periodicals in the U.S. and around the world. In 2009 and 2010, Rose was a resident fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics and its Carr Center for Human Rights. She has written introductions to Letters to My Father (LSU Press) and Selected Letters of William Styron (Random House), which she edited. Recently, her introduction to Dinner in Camelot and an essay on Gabriel Garcíáa Márquez in The Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas (Vol. 50, 2017) were published. Since 2003, Rose has annually co-chaired with Meryl Streep Poetry & the Creative Mind on stage at Lincoln Center on behalf of the Academy of American Poets. Rose’s newest volume of poems, Fierce Day, was published in 2015. Her memoir Beyond This Harbor (Knopf) was published on June 13 this year.
