Joshua Mensch

Joshua Mensch (b. 1978) is a poet, literary translator and a founding editor of the Prague-based literary journal B O D Y. His first book of poetry, Because: A Lyric Memoir (W. W. Norton, 2018) was a finalist for Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry. His translations include Petr Hruška’s I Caught Sight of My Face (Kulturalis, 2024), illustrated by Czech painter Jakub Špaňhel, and Pavla Melková’s The Gravitational Field of the Inexpressible (KANT Books, 2022), a collaboration with British sculptor and visual artist Antony Gormley. Raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, he has lived in the Czech Republic since 2003.