Frédéric Forte was born in Toulouse, France, in 1973, and lives in Paris and currently co-heads an MFA in Creative Writing in Le Havre. He has been a member of the well-known Oulipo (Workshop of Potential Litterature) since 2005. He has published 13 collections of poetry (the most recent being Transformation de la condition humaine dans toutes les branches de l'activité [P.O.L, Paris, 2023]) and several chapbooks. Three of his books have been translated in English: Seven String Quartets (La Presse/Fence Books, Iowa City, 2014), Minute-Operas (Burning Deck, Providence, 2015) and 33 Flat Sonnets (Mindmade Books, Los Angeles, 2016). He has also translated into French the American poets Michelle Noteboom and Guy Bennett.