Robyn Creswell is an American critic, scholar and translator.
In addition to teaching comparative literature at Brown University, he also serves as poetry editor of the Paris Review.
He has translated several literary works from the Middle East, including That Smell and Notes from Prison by Sonallah Ibrahim and The Clash of Images by Abdelfattah Kilito, and has written numerous essays for various literary periodicals.
A revised version of his thesis Tradition and Translation: Poetic Modernism in Beirut (2012) was published by Princeton University Press as City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut (2019).
Creswell won the 2013 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, awarded by the Center for Fiction.