About

James Appleby is a poet and translator. He is the editor of Interpret, a new magazine of international writing, where he has featured winners of the International Booker Prize, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the King's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the US National Book Award.

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James' original poetry is published in The London Magazine  and The Best American Poetry blog. His poetry translations, published by Asymptote and The Kenyon Review, have been featured at individual events at the French Institute of Scotland and the Sofia Literature & Translation House. He is a translator-in-residence for the 60th Anniversary of Modern Poetry in Translation.

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James' debut book of poems, Spurious Language, was released in June 2025 by Blue Diode. The pamphlet was commended in The International Book & Pamphlet Competition, "the most prestigious competition of its kind" (The Poetry Business). Previous awards include an Elizabeth Kostova Foundation Fellowship and commendation in the McLellan Poetry Competition.

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James is a fluent speaker of French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. He was born in 1993 and works in Manchester.