An American poet, editor, teacher, translator, and human rights defender, she has received numerous awards and fellowships for her literary work. He has taught at several universities and is a presidential member of Chapman University. She was director of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and held the Lannan Visiting Chair in Poetry at Georgetown University, where she is now a professor. His first poetry collection, Gathering the Tribes (1976), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. After traveling to Spain in 1977, he received a Guggenheim fellowship that allowed him to travel to El Salvador, where he worked for the defense of human rights. His second book, The Country Between Us (1981), received the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Lamont Poetry Selection from the Academy of American Poets. His anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993), and his third book of poetry, The Angel of History (1994), were chosen for the Los Angeles Times Best Book Award. His articles and reviews have appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, Esquire, Mother Jones and Boston Review. Forché has published other books of poetry, such as Blue Hour (2003) and In the Lateness of the World (2020); and two memoirs, The Horse on Our Balcony (2010) and What They've Heard Is True (2019).