Carolyn Forché has taught at several universities. She is Director of the Lannan Center for Poetry at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University in the UK. Her first collection, Gathering the Tribes (1976), was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz. Her second book, The Country Between Us (1981), drew on her experiences in El Salvador during the civil war. Her later collections have comprised work written over many years: The Angel of History (1994), Blue Hour (2003), and In the Lateness of the World (due in 2020). Her latest book is What You Have Heard Is True: a memoir of witness and resistance, to be published in the US in March 2019 by Penguin Press (UK publisher tbc) at the same time as Bloodaxe's UK reissue of her 1981 collection The Country Between Us, which covers the same period as the memoir.