Leo Boix

Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet from Argentina, based in the UK. His second collection, Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus), is shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prizes. His debut, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card and a Guardian top five poetry book. Boix edited and translated Hemisferio Cuir (2025), a groundbreaking anthology of queer Latin American poets. A Complete Works fellow, he co-directs Un Nuevo Sol and sits on the Poetry Translation Centre and Magma boards. He writes for The Morning Star and has received multiple awards, including the Keats-Shelley, Bart Wolfe Poetry Award and PEN prizes.