Helene Cardona

HÉLÈNE CARDONA is a poet, literary translator, and actor, author of Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry), Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry), The Abduction (Maram Al-Masri, White Pine Press), Birnam Wood (José Manuel Cardona, Salmon Poetry), Beyond Elsewhere (Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, White Pine Press), Ce que nous portons (Dorianne Laux, Éd. du Cygne) and The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press). Winner: Albertine & FACE Foundation Grant, Hemingway Grant, Independent Press Award, NYC Big Book Award, Readers' Favorite Book Award, Best Book Award, Pinnacle Best Bilingual Book Award, Julie Suk Honor, International Book Award...

Hélène holds an MA in American Literature from the Sorbonne, taught at Hamilton College & Loyola Marymount University, and received fellowships from the Goethe-Institut & Universidad Internacional de Andalucía.

She translated Whitman's War Writings for the University of Iowa's WhitmanWeb.

She co-edits Levure Littéraire.

Hélène had roles in Chocolat, Star Trek Discovery, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Jurassic World, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Muppets Most Wanted, World War Z, Mumford, and Happy Feet 2, among many. For Serendipity, she co-wrote with Peter Chelsom and Alan Silvestri the song Lucienne, which she also sang.

She also writes children stories and co-wrote with John FitzGerald the screenplay Primate, based on his novel.

Born in Paris and raised all over Europe, she has lived in Switzerland, France, England, Wales, Monaco, Germany, Spain and the United States.