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Stefania Heim is a poet, scholar, translator, editor, and educator. She is author of the poetry collections HOUR BOOK and A Table That Goes On for Miles and translator of two volumes of writings by metaphysical artist, Giorgio de Chirico: his collected Italian poems, Geometry of Shadows, and his posthumous novel, Mr. Dudron, for which she earned a 2019 Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and a 2022 ViceVersa fellowship at Villa Garbald, Switzerland. With Catherine Gander, she is editing Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser (forthcoming in early 2026 with West Virginia University Press), a creative-critical volume on the writer’s contemporary relevance, featuring some of the most innovative and socially engaged poets writing today, .

Stefania’s poems have recently appeared in Bennington Review, Poetry London, Water~Stone Review, and Oversound. Her scholarly writing has recently appeared in Journal of Modern Literature, 21|19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive, the Textual Practice Special Issue on Muriel Rukeyser’s The Life of Poetry and the Bernadette Mayer cluster at Post45. Her translations of 20th-century and contemporary Italian women writers have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Fence, Consilience Journal, and Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979, edited by Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre. Stefania is a former poetry editor at Boston Review and a founding editor with Jennifer Kronovet of CIRCUMFERENCE: Poetry in Translation. She holds an AB magna cum laude in Literature from Harvard College, an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, and a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center.

An associate professor of literature and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Western Washington University, Stefania was raised in Queens, NY.