Robin Coste Lewis

Critics called the collection "A masterpiece", "Surpassing imagination, maturity, and aesthetic dazzle", "remarkable hopefulness ... in the face of what would make most rage and/or collapse", "formally polished, emotionally raw, and wholly exquisite".

The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Buzz Feed, and Entropy Magazine all named Voyage one of the best poetry collections of the year.

Her most recent work, a single-channel video installation titled "Intimacy", was first exhibited at Gallerie Marian Goodman in Paris in collaboration with Julie Mehretu.

She also performs and tours a multi-media project titled "Archive of Desire" with composer and sound artist Vijay Iyer, master cellist Jeffrey Ziegler, and painter Julie Mehretu.

Currently, she teaches in NYU's low-residency MFA in Paris, and is a Professor of English in the PhD program in Creative Writing at USC.

[8] The following year, she earned the American Academy in Rome Prize,[9] after which she was the Ford Foundation scholar in residence at the Museum of Modern Art.