Leo Boix

Leo Boix is an Argentine-British poet, translator and journalist based in the UK. He is the author of two English collections, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant, a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice, and Southernmost: Sonnets, shortlisted for the Forwards Prizes for Poetry 2026 in the Best Collection Category, and selected Poetry Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Week. He is the author of two Spanish collections, Un lugar propio (2015) and Mar de noche (2017). Boix is the editor and lead translator of Hemisferio Cuir: An Anthology of Young Queer Latina American Poetry, the first comprehensive bilingual anthology of queer poetry from Latin America. Boix has won the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize Award, the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry and a Pen Award. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2026.

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