Leo Boix
Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet, born in Argentina and based in London. His second collection, Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus, 2025), was shortlisted for the Forward Prizes and named Book of the Year by The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and The Week. His debut English collection, Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021), was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice.
Boix is editor and lead translator of Hemisferio Cuir, introducing English readers to major Latin American voices. His work appears in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry London and international anthologies. He co-directs Un Nuevo Sol, which nurtures Latinx writers in the UK, and has been awarded the Bart Wolffe Poetry Prize, the Keats-Shelley Prize, and a PEN Award. Boix was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) in July 2026.
