Sasha Dugdale has published five previous collections with Carcanet. Her fifth collection Deformations was shortlisted for the 2020 T.S. Eliot Prize and Derek Walcott Prize. Joy (2017) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and the title poem was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2016. She has published numerous translations of Russian-language women's writing, including Maria Stepanova's novel In Memory of Memory (Fitzcarraldo, 2021) which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Weidenfeld Prize, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Dugdale won the MLA Lois Roth Award for this translation. She is former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Strongbox is her sixth Carcanet book (May 2024).
