Sophie Cabot Black (born April 18, 1958)[1][2] is an American prize-winning poet who has taught creative writing at Columbia University.

"[9] Black's poetry has appeared in publications including AGNI,[10] The Atlantic Monthly,[11] Boston Review,[12] The Paris Review, Poetry, Fence, APR, Bomb, The New Yorker,[13] and The New Republic.

Various anthologies have also included her work, such as More Light: Father & Daughter Poems, The Best American Poetry 1993 (edited by Louise Glück), and Looking for Home: Women in Exile.

[14] Black's translations of Latin American poets have been included in the anthologies You Can't Drown the Fire and Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology.

Black has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (1988), the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (1988), and, most recently, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.