Astrid Alben

Astrid Alben is a Dutch-born British poet, editor, experimental writer, and translator. She is the author of several poetry collections, and her poems have been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Maltese, Slovene and Romanian. Alben often appears at literary festivals throughout Europe, including the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival.

Between 2002 and 2018, Alben was the co-founder and artistic director of the arts and sciences initiative PARS (Atlas of Creative Thinking). In this, she curated site-specific events that combined theatre, art installations and scientific experiments, using spaces such as the Serpentine Galleries and Central Saint Martins in London, as well as the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. She was elected chair of Poetry London magazine in 2021 and is Commissioning Editor for Literature in Translation for Prototype Publishing.