Daisy Rockwell
photo credit Beowulf Sheehan
Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. Her work has been awarded the International Booker Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Translation of a Literary Work, the Wisconsin Prize for Poetry in Translation, and the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award. Her translations have been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and PEN Translates. Her memoir Our Friend, Art is forthcoming from Pushkin Press in 2027.
Books
ALICE SEES GHOSTS
Alice Bloodshaw's grandmother lies dying in their crumbling ancestral home. Family relationships are fraught, and worsened by the mercurial behavior of Alice's mother. Then Alice, eccentric and attuned to the supernatural, is haunted by the specter of her grandfather. His cryptic message sends Alice and her Bengali psychiatrist fiancé, practical-minded Ronit, on a journey from New England to India and back again to unearth the long-buried truths that have choked and tormented the family. Only by untangling the past and confronting the effects of aristocracy, secrecy, and colonialism can Alice begin to mend family ties and stop living as a ghost herself to build a new, solid future.
