Beverley Bie Brahic is a poet and translator. A Canadian, she lives in Paris and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her second poetry collection, White Sheets, was a finalist for the 2013 Forward Prize, and Hunting the Boar was a 2016 Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Brahic’s translations include Guillaume Apollinaire, The Little Auto, winner of the 2013 Scott Moncrieff Prize; Francis Ponge, Unfinished Ode to Mud, a finalist for the 2009 Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation; Yves Bonnefoy's The Present Hour, Rue Traversière, and The Anchor's Long Chain;  and books by Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva (This Incredible Need to Believe, a finalist for the 2010 French-American Foundation Translation Prize) and Hélène Cixous, including Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saint, Manhattan, and Hyperdream.

Her most recent collections of poems are The Hotel Eden (2018, Carcanet) and a translation Baudelaire: Invitation to the Voyage (2019, Seagull Books). Her pamphlet Catch and Release won the 2019 Wigtown (Scotland) Book Festival Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize. She has received a Creative Writing Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and fellowships at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.

Her fifth collection of poems, Apple Thieves, will be published by Carcanet in August 2024.