Hélène Cardona

Helene Cardona
A citizen of the United States, France and Spain, Hélène Cardona is a poet, actor, translator, teacher, lyricist and dream analyst. She studied English Philology in Cambridge, England; Spanish at the International Universities of Santander and Baeza, Spain; and German at the Goethe Institute in Bremen, Germany. She writes and translates in English, French and Spanish and is also fluent in German, Italian and Greek.

She attended Hamilton College, New York, where she also taught French and Spanish, and the Sorbonne, Paris, where she wrote her thesis on Henry James for her Master’s in American Literature. She worked as a translator/interpreter for the Canadian Embassy and the French Chamber of Commerce and taught the Ecole Bilingue in Paris and LMU in Los Angeles. She is the author of the bilingual poetry collections Life in Suspension (forthcoming from Tupelo Press), Dreaming My Animal Selves (forthcoming from Salmon Poetry), and The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press, 2006). She translated the Lawrence Bridges film Muse of Fire for the NEA, the poetry of Dorianne Laux, Eloise Klein Healy, Jean-Claude Renard, her father José Manuel Cardona and many others.

Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Mythic Passages, The American Center for Artists, Barnwood Mag, Askew, Spillway, Mediterranean Poetry, qarrtsiluni, Pirene’s Fountain and the anthology Dogs Singing (Salmon Poetry). She has been guest lecturer at Brown University and U.C. Irvine, featured poetry reader at the L.A. Times Festival of Books and on national radio.

Born in Paris and raised all over Europe, she has lived in Geneva, Cambridge, London, Llandudno, Monte-Carlo, Bremen, Paris, Tarragona, Madrid, New York City and Santa Monica.

First posted on May 22, 2011 5:31 AM