Egan Garr is a queer poet, translator, and literary organizer from the American South.
Egan is the author of Terrane (MIEL, 2015) and The Preservationist Documents (Pilot Books, 2012). In 2023, Egan was accredited by the Dutch Foundation for Literature as a translator of Dutch and Flemish poetry into English.
After moving to Amsterdam in 2001, Egan founded the small press Versal to build and sustain Amsterdam’s rich international literary community. For over two decades, Egan has helmed the press and developed numerous literary programs in the Netherlands and the USA, including VERSO / live jour- nal, Writers Resist Amsterdam, Journal Porn, and The Open Stanza, as well as a long-running workshop series in collaboration with The English Bookshop.
Egan’s writings on inequalities in the literary world and its economy have been anthologized in Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Milkweed Editions, 2016) and Paper Dreams: Writers and Editors on the American Literary Magazine (Atticus Books, 2013), among others.
