Roger Greenwald is an American poet, translator, and editor based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Roger Greenwald was born in New Jersey,[1] where his father, a physicist, worked at the Fort Monmouth Signal Labs.
In 1966 he received his BA from The City College of New York, where together with Richard Strier he edited four issues of the college literary magazine, Promethean,[2] and participated in the weekly Promethean Writers Workshop, which included, among others, Peter Anson, Robert David Cohen, Samuel R. Delany, Joel Sloman, Elaine Schwager, and Lewis Warsh.
He taught creative writing, translation, and composition at Innis College, part of the University of Toronto, until 2006.
[6] Greenwald was the regional editor for Denmark and Norway (and, with Rika Lesser, for Sápmi) for the 2008 anthology New European Poets.
Further translations of poetry include three books by the Norwegian Poet Paal-Helge Haugen; Picture World, by the Danish poet Niels Frank; and from Swedish, The Time in Malmö on the Earth, by Jacques Werup and Guarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar Harding.