Astrid Alben is a poet, editor and translator. Her debut collection Ai! Ai! Pianissimo was published by Arc Publications in 2011. Her next collection, Plainspeak, is forthcoming in 2019. Her poems have been translated into Romanian, Slovenian, Maltese, Japanese and Chinese. Alben translates Flemish and Dutch contemporary poetry into English, including the work of Dutch poet laureate Anne Vegter, F. van Dixhoorn, Peter Verhelst and Bart Moeyaert.
Alben is a Rijksakademie Fellow and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in 2014. She is the founder and Artistic Director of the art and science initiative PARS, the co-Editor of Findings on Ice, Findings on Elasticity and Findings on Light, published by Lars Müller Publications and the curator of site-specific events that are a mixture of theatre, art and scientific experiment.
