Beverley Bie Brahic is a poet and translator. Born in Saskatoon, she grew up in Vancouver and was educated at the University of British Columbia, Columbia University, and the Universit� de Provence. She has published a poetry collection, Against Gravity (Worple, 2005) and a number of translations from French, including a selection of poems by Francis Ponge, Unfinished Ode to Mud (CBeditions, 2008), a finalist for the Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation, and H�l�ne Cixous's Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint (2004, Columbia University Press). She lives in Stanford, California and Paris, France.