Los editores - The Buenos Aires Review

Micaela Agostini was born in La Plata, grew up in Mercedes and studied in Buenos Aires. She lives in París, where she writes, translates and teaches Spanish to little kids.

Zhang Ailing A novelist, essayist, and screenwriter, Zhang Ailing, also known as Eileen Chang (1920 –1995), one of the most influential modern Chinese writers. Some of her works include the collection Love in a Fallen City; Lust, Caution; The rice-sprout song and The Rouge of the North.

Andrés Alfaro is a translator/musician/ping-pong-enthusiast who was found wandering the streets of California by his current loving mother at the age of sixteen months. As he grew up with his new family, he developed a penchant for reading and a curiosity for Costa Rica, his new father’s homeland. Eventually he would find himself living there and, for the first time, reading tico authors like Alexánder Obando, Carmen Naranjo, Felipe Granados, and others. If he were on a dating game show and were asked his one true desire, he would respond, “to see more Costa Rican authors in translation.” He has translated many authors including Felipe Granados’ Soundtrack, Alexánder Obando, Alfredo Trejos, Arabella Salaverry, Marvin Bell (into Spanish) and, now, Natalia Litvinova. He worked extensively with MahMag.org, an online quadrilingual literary journal. He resides in Iowa City, Iowa.

Alexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Quarterly West, Prelude, Pinwheel, The Brooklyn Rail, and elsewhere. Her chapbook of poems, Half-Shine, is recently out from Dancing Girl Press, and her translation of Florencia Castellano's Propiedades vigiladas [Monitored Properties] is recently out from Ugly Duckling Presse. Her translation of Roberta Iannamico's Tendal [Wreckage] is forthcoming from Toad Press. She is a contributing editor at The Elephants. She is the recipient of a Yaddo residency, and recently spent the year in Buenos Aires on a Fulbright research grant, compiling and co-translating an anthology of contemporary female poets living in Argentina. She currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

João Almino is a Brazilian novelist who lives in Madrid. His novels have been translated into English, Spanish, French and Italian, and have received honors such as the biannual Zaffari & Bourbon (awarded to Free City for best novel) and the Casa de las Americas, for The Five Seasons of Love. Borges is one the writers he has read most. He intently reads his friends Diana Bellesi, Michael Palmer and the novels by Martin Kohan, who presented The Five Seasons of Love when it was published in Buenos Aires by Corregidor.

Juan Álvarez (Neiva, Colombia). Winner of the National Short Fiction Prize “Bogotá City” in 2005 and Iberoamericana’s prize for best essay in 2010 (The Ibero-American Institute of Berlin). He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas El Paso and is a doctoral candidate in the department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. He has published a collection of short stories, Falsas alarmas (IDCT 2006 | Alfaguara, e-book 2012), and the novel C.M. no record (Alfaguara 2011). In 2011, he was named one of the “25 best kept secrets in Latin America” at the Guadalajara International Book Fair.

Pablo Ambrogi studied Philosophy at Cambridge University and Law at the University of Buenos Aires. He has written articles and reviews for La Nación, and his translation into Spanish of Susan McCarty’s “Services Pending” appeared last year on the website of The Iowa Review. He is fond of a number of American and Argentine authors ranging from T.S. Eliot to Jorge Asís to Saul Bellow.

Tiana Bakić Hayden is a PhD candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at New York University. Her dissertation investigates the everyday lives of street vendors in Mexico City. In her non-dissertating moments, she writes about Mexican food, Balkan music, US abortions and New York City theater. Someday, she would love to translate Meša Selimović and Igor Štiks from Serbo-Croatian into Spanish.

Sofía Barca was born in Bahía Blanca 20 years ago, but she has been living in La Plata since she was 6. Beatlemaniac and a TV series lover such as Grey's anatomy, currently she is studying Traductorado Público en Inglés at the University of La Plata, and giving private classes.

Mariana Barreto After trying out Sculpture, Industrial Design, and finally finishing her degree in Sociology in Lima, Mariana started work toward a Ph.D. in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Northwestern University, where she focuses on contemporary art and politics. With regard to her textual activities, she translates from the English and French, but likes learning languages so she can read books in the original and sing along reasonably well. Her literary heroines are Anaïs Nin, Leonora Carrington and Sophie Calle, even though the last is a visual artist. Lately, she has felt a need to have the poems of Richard Sicken and Jeffrey McDaniel near at hand.

Mario Bellatin has published dozens of novellas with major and minor publishing houses in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. His English-language translations include Beauty Salon (2010) and Shiki Nagaoka: a Nose for Fiction (2013). Among his current projects is the series Los Cien Mil Libros de Bellatin, his own imprint dedicated to publishing 1,000 copies each of 100 of his books.

Carol Bensimon was born in Porto Alegre. Her first book, Pó de parede, was published in Brazil in 2008 and in Argentina in 2015. She also published the novels Sinuca embaixo d’agua (Companhia das Letras, 2009) and Todos nós adorávamos caubóis (Companhia das Letras, 2013). She was a finalist for the Jabuti and São Paulo literary prizes, and was chosen by Granta as one of the best young Brazilian writers.

Andrew Berardini was born in California and lives in Los Angeles. Writer, editor and curator. Contributing editor at Momus, Art-Agenda and Mousse. Professor at Mountain School of Art. Co-founder of Art Book Review. Writer at Warhol/Creative Capital Arts and 221A Curatorial Resident Grantee. Forthcoming works in print: Danh Vo: Relics (Mousse, 2015) and the still-unfinished Standard Book of Colors.

Timo Berger Timo Berger was born in 1974 in Stuttgart and currently lives in Berlin, where he works as a poet, cultural force of nature and translator. He is the author of several books of poems and short stories, in both German and Spanish. Berger co founded the Latinale Festival (www.latinale.de) devoted to current Latin American poetry, and he also cofounded the Festival de Poesía Salida al Mar (Argentina, 2004-2007). He has translated, among others, Fabián Casas, Sergio Raimondi, Pola Oloixarac, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Manuel Rivas, Raúl Zurita, Silvio Rodríguez, Julián Herbert, Criolo, Luis Chaves, Nicolas Behr and Martín Gambarotta.

Stanley Bill is a translator and lecturer in Polish Studies at Cambridge University.

Álvaro Bisama is a writer and literary critic. He holds a Phd in Literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica and an MA in Latin American Studies from the Universidad de Chile. He teaches Creative Writing at the Universidad Diego Portales, and is the author of the novels Caja negra, Música marciana, Estrellas muertas and Ruido. He has also published the short story collections Death Metal and Los muertos, and non-fiction volumes including Zona Cero, Postales urbanas and Cien libros chilenos.

Alicia Bisso is a writer and a journalist. She published a collection of short stories, Algunas fotos tuyas, and has a piece in Matadoras, an anthology of Peruvian women writers. She is the author of El Comercio’s relationships blog “Busco Novio” and contributes to a number of local and international publications.

Neda Miranda Blazevic-Krietzman was born and raised in Croatia. She is a writer, artist and former professor of Literature at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota. Since 2007 she lives and works in San Diego, CA. For her eighteen books of poetry, prose and artwork she has received numerous honors and awards among which are: 2012 Croatia Poet Laureate - the Tin Ujević Award for a collection of poetry The Vesuvius Door; 2009, a San Diego Book & Writing Award Association in the Poetry category; 2005, St. Catherine’s Denny Prize Honoree for Distinction in writing; 1991/92, Recipient of DAAD Fellowship for Writing; 1990/91, Writer in Residence at the International Writing Program in Iowa City; 1984/85, Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Among Blazevic’s favorite writers are Carol Shields, Wisława Szymborska and Jorge Luis Borges. His ways of pouring his characters, places and times from reality to unreality have established a new order of anarchy, which is the paradox whose inconsistency has inspired Blazevic in her writing.

Rosario Bléfari is a singer, songwriter, actress, and writer. She started out in the mythic rock band “Suárez,” releasing five albums with the group, and five as a solo artist. Her published books of poetry include La música equivocada, and she has starred in movies by Martin Rejtman and Vivi Tellas; her most recent film is Los dueños (Raduzky-Toscano, 2013). She has co-written and directed several plays, and is currently recording an album and making plans to perform live with the group “Sué Mon Mont.” Photo: Eugenia Kais.

Jonathan Blitzer says: I am a journalist, critic, and translator currently based in New York. My writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic, and The Atlantic, among other places. I am also an editor of Words Without Borders, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, from 2010-2011. My work there was inspired by authors I began reading while living in Buenos Aires: Juan Carlos Onetti, Juan José Saer, and Antonio di Benedetto, above all. Borges, too, obviously. And Felisberto… (Hernández). At the moment, I'm reading Suzanne Jill Levine's and Jessica Ernst Powell's excellent translation of a Bioy/Ocampos collaboration, called Where There's Love There's Hate. I'm in close contact with a group of writers living in Madrid, where I lived for a few years. Among them are Jorge Eduardo Benavides, Doménico Chiappe, Juan Carlos Chirinos, Carlos Franz (now back in Chile), Blanca Riestra, and Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga.

Paula Bohince is the author of two poem collections, both published by Sarabande Books: The Children (2012) and Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods (2008). Her poems have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The TLS, Poetry, and Granta, among others. She was a Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place and the Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholar. She was also an NEA Fellow, and an Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow. The South American writer who has been most influential to her work is Pablo Neruda.

Natalia Brizuela studied literature and fine art at Princeton University and received her doctorate in Latin American literature and culture from New York University. She is a researcher and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Natalia is the author of Fotografia e imperio. Paisagens para um Brasil Moderno (2012) and Depois da fotografia. Uma literatura fora de si (2014), and coeditor of Y todo el resto es literatura. Ensayos sobre Osvaldo Lamborghini (2008). She has curated various exhibitions, including "NO SÉ. El templo del Sol," an exhibition about the Brazilian artist Nuno Ramos held in the Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires.

Jane Brodie is a visual artist and translator specialized in the visual arts. She moved to Buenos Aires after graduating from college in 1990. It was not until she had lived in that city for almost fifteen years that she understood what kept her there (other than the entanglements that accompany life anywhere, that is): the combination of elegance and decay so particular to that city. That combination is also, to a large extent, what her art investigates. Sometimes she thinks that, just as you don’t really know a song until you have tried to sing it, you have never really read a text until you have translated it. Her translation clients include Art Forum, Malba, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Parkett Magazine, and other institutions, publications and individuals (mostly artists and critics) based in the Americas and Europe.

Caitlin Bruce received her PhD in Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Her research is in the area of visual studies, affect studies, and critical theory. She is currently investigating the relationships between public art in urban spaces in transition within a transnational milieu. Her research takes her to Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Paris, León Guanajuato, and Mexico City. She is currently working on a manuscript on transnational public art. You can follow some of her research at: http://caitlinbruce.blogspot.com.

Sarah Bruni studied literature at the University of Iowa and holds an MFA in fiction writing from Washington University of St. Louis. Her first novel, The Night Gwen Stacy Died (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), was published in 2013, with translations forthcoming in Brazil and Germany in 2014. She grew up outside Chicago on a diet of Raymond Carver and Joan Didion. While living in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 2010, she discovered the work of Julio Cortázar and Eduardo Galeano in Spanish and hasn’t considered the act of reading in the same way since. She lives in Brooklyn.

Ernesto Hernández Busto is an essayist and translator. He studied Mathematics in the former USSR and Literature and Philosophy in Havana. He emigrated from Cuba in 1991 and lived nine years in Mexico City, where he was a frequent contributor to Vuelta and other Mexican literary magazines, and received several grants and awards for his translations. In 1999 he moved to Barcelona, where he works as a translator, editor, and journalist. His publications include Perfiles derechos: Fisonomías del escritor reaccionario (Premio de Ensayo Casa de América, 2004) and Inventario de saldos: Apuntes sobre literatura cubana (2005), as well as work in several anthologies and translations from French, Russian, Portuguese and Italian. In 2006 he started a blog on Cuban affairs, for which he still writes: www.penultimosdias.com. His next book, La ruta natural, will be published by Vaso Roto in May 2015.

Martin Caamaño Born in Buenos Aires in 1980, Caamaño is a musician and writer. From 2003, he has played guitar in the band Rosal and recorded five albums with them. In 2009, he published his first novel Pálido Reflejo with the Madrid-based publishing house Lengua de Trapo. Caamaño studies Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, translates Portuguese and contributes to various magazines writing on cinema, music and literature.

Javier Calvo is a novelist and literary translator. He has published seven works of fiction, including Corona de flores (Crown of Flowers, Mondadori 2010, Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize) and El jardín colgante (The Hanging Garden, Seix Barral 2012, Premio Biblioteca Breve). His novels have been translated into French, Italian, English and German. (Photo: Laura Rosal)

Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian author and journalist. He was the editor of Folhetim, a collection of essays, and worked in Paris and New York as a correspondent for Folha de São Paulo. Before dedicating himself completely to literature, he translated Oliver Sacks and Bruce Chatwin into Brazilian Portuguese. His novel Mongólia received the 2003 prize of the Associação Paulista dos Críticos de Arte. He shared the Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature with Dalton Trevisan for his novel Nove Noites. He is the author of nine novels and two collections of stories.

Yolanda Castaño is a Galician poet, columnist, translator, scriptwriter for TV, and occasional food writer. She studied Spanish Philology in the Universidad de A Coruña. She has co-founded a poetry publishing house, and manages the annual poetry festival PontePoética in Pontevedra. Her poems have been translated into Catalan, Euskera, German, Italian, French, Arabic, Maltese, Slavic, Macedonian, Armenian, Albanian, Chinese, Russian, Lituanian, Polish, Finnish and Japanese. She lives in A Coruña.

Stéphane Chaumet was born in Dunkerque, France. He has lived in the United States, Mexico, Syria, and China. He has published a novel entitled Même pour ne pas vaincre, a collection of short stories called Au bonheur des voiles, and four books of poems. He has also translated several poets from Latin America (Alberto Blanco, Myriam Montoya, Pura López Colomé, Natalia Litvinova...) and Spain (Leopoldo M. Panero, Olvido García Valdés...) into French, along with the German poet Hilde Domin and the Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad. He has a blog for his translations.

Maxine Chernoff 's first prose poems were influenced by Julio Cortázar and Clarice Lispector. She continues to be a fan of Latin American literature. She is chair of Creative Writing at SFSU, editor of New American Writing and the 2009 PEN USA Translation Award winner with Paul Hoover for the Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin. The author of 14 books of poems, most recently To Be Read in the Dark (Omnidawn 2011) and Without (Shearsman 2012); her next book, Here, from which this poem is taken, will be published by Counterpath Press is 2014. She is a 2013 NEA Fellow in poetry and a recent Visiting International Scholar at Exeter University in Devon, England.

Matías Ariel Chiappe Ippolito has a literature degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he now teaches, and a master’s in Asian and African studies from the Colegio de México. He is a translator and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Waseda in Tokyo. He wrote the novel El trueque (The Trade).

Zheng Chouyu Zheng Chouyu (1933-), a well-known Chinese poet, was born in Mainland China and moved to Taiwan in 1949. His work abounds with classical Chinese poetic images, exemplified by this poem “A Mistake.” “A Mistake” belongs to “Boudoir Lament” (guisi 闺思), a popular subgenre in the long Chinese poetic tradition. “Boudoir Lament” poems were often written by male poets in the voice of a woman yearning for her absent lover/husband. Boudoir Lament poetry is often set in difficult times such as war, when lovers tended to be separated. It is said that this piece is a poetic treatment of the poet’s own childhood experience in wartime China in the 1940s, and that the archetype of the woman is the poet’s mother. It is a beautifully written poem that captures the spirit of the long poetic imagination of South Land (Jiangnan 江南), the cultural construct corresponding to the geographical region of the lower Yangzi River delta. It conjures up an image of waterland and lotus flowers, and people of talent, beauty, affluence, and cultural refinement. The feminine “South” is often contrasted to the masculine “North,” which is also a constructed place, connoting a borderland of bitterly cold winters and hardships.

Liliana Colanzi is the author of the short story collections Vacaciones permanentes (El Cuervo, 2010) and La Ola (Montacerdos, 2014). She co-edited the non-fiction anthology Conductas erráticas (Alfaguara, 2009) and edited the bilingual anthology Mesías/Messiah (Traviesa, 2013). She has also contributed to publications including Etiqueta Negra, Clarín, El Deber and Letras Libres and is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Her stories have been translated into English, French, and Portuguese.

Lolita Copacabana was born in Buenos Aires in 1980. She is the author of *buena leche* (2006). This year Interzona will publish Alt Lit, an anthology of contemporary literature from the United States that she edited with Hernán Vanoli.

Agustín Cosovschi was born in Buenos Aires in 1986. He received his degree in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires and is currently pursuing his PhD in History at the University of San Martin. His research on the recent political history of the Balkans got him in touch with languages such as serbo-croatian and czech. His work appears in Panamá and other Argentine magazines.

Victoria Cotino is a journalist and a translator. Her articles have appeared in Clarín, Perfil and Revista Tónica. She is currently studying Liberal Arts at The New School in New York. Her first literary crush was José Arcadio.

Edgardo Cozarinsky was born in Buenos Aires, lived for three decades in Paris and now commutes between both cities, with longer stays in his birthplace. He is a writer and filmmaker. Among his more than twenty books, the only ones translated into English are Urban Voodoo (prologue by Susan Sontag), The Bride from Odessa and The Moldavian Pimp. His films include fiction and essays (not to be seen as documentaries). When he turned 70, he embarked in a series of “chamber films” still in progress. He is a great tango enthusiast and can be seen almost every evening in one or another of the “milongas” of Buenos Aires. (Photo: Verónica Chen)

Karen Cresci is a CONICET doctoral fellow and a member of the research group, "Problemas de la Literatura Comparada." She holds degrees from the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata and New York University, where she wrote her MA thesis on the English-Spanish tension in Junot Díaz’s fiction and its translation into Spanish. Currently, she is finishing her thesis for the Maestría en Culturas y Literaturas Comparadas at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, where she will begin her doctoral work in 2013.

J.P. Cuenca Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1978. Cuenca has been published in numerous anthologies both in Brazil and overseas. He is the author of the novels Corpo Presente (tr: Body Present Planeta, 2003), O dia Mastroianni (tr: The Mastroianni Day, Agir, 2007), O único final feliz para uma historia de amor é um accidente (tr: The only happy ending to a love story is an accident, Companhia das Letras, 2010), a book also published in Portugal, Spain, Germany, United States, Finland and France. He is the author of the anthology A última madrugada (tr: The Last Dawn, Agir, 2012) comprised of his chronicles previously published in Tribuna da Imprensa, Jornal do Brasil and O Globo. He has also contributed to publications such as Babelia (El País), Playboy, Vogue and Time Out. In 2007, he was selected by the Festival Hay as one of the most talented 39 young Latin America writers and last year he was chosen by Granta as one of the top 20 best Brazilian writers under 40.

Ariel Dilon Ariel Dilon was born in Buenos Aires in 1964. He is a writer, translator, journalist, editor, and teacher. Ariel has translated into Spanish the works of many authors including R.L Stevenson, Mark Twain, Marcel Schwob, Alfred Jarry, Clément Rosset, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Patricia Highsmith,Raymond Radiguet, Phillip Sollers, Jacques Lacan, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Alexandre Dumas, Michel Foucault, Alexander Theroux, and Marc Augé. He contributes to the pages of Culture, a prominent journal of Rio de la Plata. In Spain, the author published the collection of short stories El inventor de dioses y otros apócrifos chinos. Ariel is also a part of the editorial team behind the art, essay and translation magazine Las ranas (http://revistalasranas.com.ar/).

Mariana Dimópulos translates both fiction and philosophy from English and German. She occasionally writes for the press. She has published two novels, Anís (Entropía, 2008) and Cada despedida (Adriana Hidalgo, 2010). Her relationship with the literature of the United States and Canada? A long and intense relationship with Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor, and, going a little further back, with Melville. A somewhat less defined one with the writers of the second half of the twentieth century. A longstanding relationship with the English language, full of admiration, of surprise and sometimes—though only sometimes—of exasperation.

Andrea Durlacher has been leading writing workshops since 2003 and has been a lecturer at the Universidad de Montevideo since 2006. She has worked as a columnist for El País, El Observador, and Montevideo’s Océano radio station. Her publications include a novel, Esto es una pipa, published by Penguin Random House in 2015, and a poetry collection, Ni un segundo para arrepentirme, which came out with Artefatto in 2004.

Joshua Edwards directs and co-edits Canarium Books. He's the author of Campeche (with photographs by his father Van Edwards; Noemi Press, 2011) and Imperial Nostalgias (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and the translator of contemporary Mexican poet María Baranda's Ficticia. His poetry and translations have also appeared in Chicago Review, Colorado Review, LIT, Practice, Slate, Vanitas, and elsewhere, and an essay about his favorite South American poet, Vicente Huidobro, is forthcoming from the Tavern Books Honest Pint subscription series. Currently a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, he and his wife, Lynn Xu, divide their time between Stuttgart, Germany and Marfa, Texas.

Aileen El-Kadi holds a PhD in Latin American literature (University of Colorado at Boulder). She is an Assistant Professor and director of the Brazilian Studies Program at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her research interests are the representations of urban violence in contemporary literature and film in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina; issues on immigration and the construction of masculinities.

Ellen Elias-Bursac has been translating novels and non-fiction by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian writers for over twenty years, including writing by David Albahari, Daša Drndić, Antun Šoljan, Dubravka Ugrešić, Karim Zaimović. The ALTA's National Translation Award by was given to her translation of Albahari's novel Götz and Meyer in 2006. She is a contributing editor with Asymptote. Her translation of Daša Drndić's novel Trieste was shortlisted for the IFFP in 2013. To celebrate she read all the other shortlisted translations. Gerbrand Bakker's The Detour deservedly won the prize, but reading the other contenders together: The Fall of the Stone City by Ismail Kadare, Traveler of the Century by Andrés Neuman, Bundu by Chris Barnard, and Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas was a compelling exercise in variety and remarkable writing/translation.

Craig Epplin is an assistant professor at Portland State University, where he writes and teaches on contemporary Latin American culture. His first book, titled Late Book Culture in Argentina, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014.

Carys Evans-Corrales was born in London and grew up in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Jamaica, where she had the chance to learn toddler-level Hainanese, German, and fluent Malay before leaving high school. She holds a degree in Linguistics from the University of York, specializing in Spanish and Swahili. She traveled to Salamanca with a bursary of the Spanish government; there, she fell in love with the Galician language and literature. She taught at Santiago de Compostela, finished a Ph.D in Spanish Literature at Rutgers University, and later joined the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, where she now serves as Director of Foreign Languages.

Federico Falco was born in General Cabrera, a small village in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. He has published three books of short stories, one book of poems, and a novella. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU and has participated in the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa. He was selected by Granta as one of the best Spanish-language writers under the age of 35. He currently lives in Buenos Aires, where he teaches a writing workshop at the Tomás Eloy Martínez Foundation. He constantly rereads Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, and Steven Millhauser. He recently discovered and became fascinated with the short stories of Mavis Gallant and Lydia Davis.

Carolina Fernández holds a degree in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires and is pursuing a Masters degree in Literary Studies at the National University Tres de Febrero. She works as an instructor and translator.

Hugh Ferrer is the Associate Director of the International Writing Program, a senior editor at the Iowa Review, a lecturer at the University of Iowa, and a faculty member of the Iowa Summer Writing Program. His first exposure to Latin American literature was his father’s full shelf of 1970’s Avon Bard paperback editions of Gabriel García Márquez. Later, after college, reading broadly in world literature led to an immersion in Borges and Machado de Assis, among many others. And now, at the International Writing Program, he has the regular opportunity to meet and work with dozens of leading Latin and Central American writers, including many from Buenos Aires and Argentina, such as Martin Rejtman, Guillermo Martinez, Leopoldo Brizuela, Carlos Gamerro, Román Antopolsky, Pola Oloixarac, Maria Cristoff, and Federico Falco.  Two Central American authors whose work in translation he’s enjoyed in the last year are Horacio Castellanos Moya, from El Salvador, and the Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfon.

John Foster Fraser (1868 – 1936) was a Scottish travel author. In 1896 took a bicycle trip across three continents and wrote Round the World on a Wheel (1899). He worked as a journalist for the Yorkshire Post and published more than ten books, like Red Russia (1907) and The land of veiled woman (1913). He was knighted in 1917.

John Freeman is Editor of Granta. His criticism has appeared in the Guardian, The New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, The Tyranny of E-Mail, was published in 2009. How to Read a Novelist will be published by FSG in the fall.

Carlos Freytes says: My relationship with literature is purely playful, that of an avid reader—with the exception of a few false starts while I was in college. My career is in the social sciences, which I suppose you might consider a minor genre of literature. I spent the past six years between Buenos Aires and Chicago, where I went to do a Ph.D. in Political Science. My personal canon of American authors is both long and predictable: William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, J. D. Salinger, some of Tom Wolfe, John Kennedy Toole, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster. And Vladimir Nabokov, who isn’t American, but whose novels often are.  In terms of newer releases, I really liked Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom. I have also read David Leavitt’s novels and short stories and enjoyed tremendously his capacity to portray the subtle horrors that make up every family tale.

Julián Fuks is a writer and literary critic. He was born in São Paulo to Argentine parents, and these origins can be overwhelming. He has managed to free himself somewhat from this excess of influence with a few of his books: Histórias de literatura e cegueira (Stories of Literature and Blindness), a work of fiction about Borges and other illustrious blind individuals, and Procura do romance (In Pursuit of the Novel), a work in indirect dialogue with Saer and Macedonio, prophets of the literary apocalypse.

Eitán Futuro was blessed by numerology on the day of his birth, and dedicated his formative years to contemplating the progressive destruction of the world, as manifested in his nuclear family – time vessel. In 1998, his parents find a box under his bed full of playdough inscribed with cuneiform script and a good luck dollar that his grandmother Pinina had brought from Florida, and promptly send him in for psychological assessment with an old friend who had worked for his mother in the Morot school, Jewish kindergarten teachers. When asked the meaning of the cuneiform writing, Eitán responded, “It doesn’t mean anything,” adding “It no longer exists” while writing his indigo micropoem #2 in a purple notebook with spiderweb relief. (Indigo micropoem #2: Heat and wind on a single device/ Oh! How I love you,/one device!”) When the psychologist asked what he was writing, he said, “I’m making the future.”

Antonio Machado (1875–1939) was a Spanish poet and a key figure in the cultural movement known as the Generation of ’98. His work dwells on the landscapes of Spain, especially Castilla, and is influenced by medieval poetry, French surrealism, social realism, spiritual conflicts, and the philosophy of Henri Bergson. Contemporary poets such as Geoffrey Hill, Derek Walcott, and Robert Bly have acknowledged his impact on their own work.

Carmen Maria Machado  is a fiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Tin House’s Open Bar, The American Reader, Five Chapters, Best Women's Erotica 2012, The Paris Review Daily, VICE, The Hairpin, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers' Workshop.  When she was fifteen, an English teacher handed her a copy of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, and nothing was the same after that.

Anthony Madrid lives in Chicago. His poems have appeared in B O D Y, Boston Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Lana Turner, LIT, Poetry, and Volt. His first book is called I AM YOUR SLAVE NOW DO WHAT I SAY (Canarium Books, 2012).

Vivian Maier (French/American, 1926-2009) thrilled the world when her photographs and life story went viral after being posted online. Born in New York City, she spent her childhood in France and returned to New York in the late 1930s. She later moved to Chicago, where she worked as a nanny for about forty years supporting herself and her passion for photography. Maier created more than 100,000 negatives, but showed few images to anyone. Her body of work remained unknown until being discovered in 2007. Following Maier’s death, champions of her photography have been managing her archives and organizing exhibitions and events across the United States and around the world.

Tryno Maldonado (Zacatecas, México) has published the collection of short stories Temas y variaciones (2002), the novel Viena roja (Planeta, 2005), an anthology of Mexican writing Grandes hits, vol. 1 (Almadía, 2008) and Temporada de caza para el león negro (Anagrama, 2009), which was among the finalists for the XXVI Herralde Prize. Teoría de las catástrofes (Alfaguara, 2012) is his most recent novel. He has lived in the city of Oaxaca for years.

Rodrigo Marchán says: my first exposure to translation was a selection of poems by Bukowski published by Emptybeercan, a house started by Federico Ludueña in Argentina in the early 90s. Ludueña's translations were noble and correct, but certain parts just sounded strange to me. There was something about the original tone that just wasn’t there. Latin American Spanish isn’t the same as Spanish Spanish. After Bukowski died, Planeta published a two-volume bilingual edition of selected poems. This time the drawback was Jorge Lanata’s prologue, but in the book itself you could see the connection that the translator established with the voice of the author. After that I went back over the whole list of North American writers I had liked before: Henry Miller, Salinger, Fitzgerald, some of Faulkner and Ferlinghetti and the guys from City Lights. The Canadian infiltrator Leonard Cohen, and later on, Cheever, Carver, and Foster Wallace. One thing I read recently that needs to be translated is Elizabeth McCracken’s Here's Your Hat What’s Your Hurry.

Inés Marcó was born in Concordia, Argentina, in 1984. She currently lives in Paris.  She studied at the National University of the Arts (IUNA) in Buenos Aires and learned a lot from Pablo Siquier, Juan Doffo, Gabriel Baggio, and Ernesto Ballesteros. She’s interested in a number of problematics in art and painting. She began painting with gouache after seeing Laylah Ali working. She likes the art of Roni Horn, Liliana Porter, and many others.

Patricia Marechal has a philosophy degree from the University of Buenos Aires. She lives in Boston, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Harvard University. She works on metaphysics, philosophy of action, and philosophy of mind in Ancient philosophy. She reads Ancient Greek, she loves cinema, and is obsessed with cats.

Eva Marer (1969 – 2009) spent her childhood in Bloomington, Indiana. Daughter of a German mother and Hungarian father, she grew up navigating three cultures. Graduate of Columbia University’s journalism school, she was an accomplished journalist covering finance, fashion and women’s health issues for Vogue, Marie Claire, Self, Worth and Health. Her first love was always fiction. An excerpt of her posthumous novel-in-stories, Pleasure, was published in the Summer 2009 issue of the literary magazine Open City. The full collection will appear in book form in 2013.

Marina Mariasch was born in Buenos Aires. She studied Literature at the UBA and Sociology of Culture at UNSAM. Her poetry collections include coming attractions (1997), XXX (2001) and tigre y león (2005). In 2009, el zig zag de las instituciones received the support of the Fondo Metropolitano de las Artes. En 2011, she published her first novel, El matrimonio.

Santiago Martorana studied Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He works on "Internet stuff," writes television scripts and book reviews for digital and print media, and teaches contemporary literature. North American narratives have had a major impact on him since he was seven, when he would spend his nights watching "Green Acres" and "The Donna Reed Show." More recently, he has been devouring the work of writers like Ben Lerner, Nicholson Baker, Sheila Heti, and Jeffrey Eugenides. From the dunes of the Argentine desert, he prays daily to Fogwill and dreams of his reincarnation. He is a casual drinker of Thelorr.

Maryia Martysevich is a Byelorussian poet and translator. She lives in Minsk.

Pablo Maurette writes essays and teaches comparative literature at the University of Chicago. He edited and translated works by Porphyry, Robert Burton, and Thomas Hobbes. His first book, El sentido olvidado: ensayos sobre el tacto (The Forgotten Sense: Essays on Touch) was published by Mardulce Editora in 2015. Some of the authors he has read the most in the past couple of years are Lucretius, Plotinus, Sir Thomas Browne, Doris Lessing, W.G. Sebald, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.

Chris Meade lives in Michigan where he is writing a comparative study of America and Anti-America in US-American and Latin American fiction. A long-time resident of the US Midwest, Chris got confused about what “America” means. After years of study, he is still confused. He is currently focused on the historical nomadism of authors like Alejo Carpentier, Willa Cather and Samuel Delany. In these authors’ works, characters wander through geographical territories but find themselves moving between historical epochs. This nomadism within history demonstrates American pluralism without stooping to the nationalist or homogenizing clichés of mestizaje or the melting pot. Chris also loves William Faulkner, Graciliano Ramos, Ricardo Piglia, Luisa Valenzuela, Joanna Russ, Poul Anderson and lots of others. He would love the opportunity to translate the work of Carlos Sussekind and to write a study on the uncanny similarities between Herman Melville and Roberto Bolaño.

Valeria Meiller studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires and is now an editor, cultural critic, teacher, and translator. She has published two books of poems, El recreo (2010) and the co-authored work Prueba de soledad en el paisaje (2011). She is currently at work on her next book, El mes raro (2013). She is a fan of North American literature, and especially of writers from her generation, like Megan Boyle and Tao Lin, both of whom she and Lucas Mertehikian have translated for Dakota Editora. A few North American poets, Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop among them, as well as short story writers like Lorrie Moore and the Canadian Alice Munro, played an important role in her decision to become a writer.

Ben Merriman is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Chicago and the fiction editor at Chicago Review. His stories and essays have appeared in dozens of journals; read more at benmerriman.tumblr.com.

Lincoln Michel ’s fiction and essays appear in Tin House, NOON, Electric Literature, The Paris Review Daily, The Believer, and elsewhere. He is a founder and co-editor of the arts and literature magazine Gigantic. He lives in New York City. You can find him online at lincolnmichel.com. Lincoln says: Jorge Luis Borges—along with Franz Kafka—obliterated, in the best possible way, my conception of what short fiction could be or achieve. I believe the first story of his I read was “Man on Pink Corner” ("Hombre de la esquina rosada"), which is perhaps one of his more “traditional” stories yet remains odd and exciting. His essays are truly fantastic as well. I still return to him frequently to borrow and steal. More recently, I have been reading and enjoying a fair amount of Roberto Bolaño, César Aira, and Clarice Lispector.

Luna Miguel I’m 23 and live in Barcelona. I’ve published books of poetry and fiction. I write for PlayGround. I edit for El Gaviero Ediciones. I’m on Twitter and Instagram at @lunamonelle.

Szilvia Molnar , born in Hungary, but raised in Sweden, is a writer and artist living in New York City. Her writing has been published in Little Brother, Two Serious Ladies, Electric Cereal, Imperial Matters, and Butterfly Knives and Sea Salt. Her artwork has been published by Girls Get Busy, Flavorwire, Jezebel, Matavilela, and Icon – El Pais. They are also collected here: szilmolnar.tumblr.com

Juan Carlos Mondragón is from Montevideo, Uruguay. He received his doctorate in Barcelona with a dissertation on the theoretical work of Joaquín Torres García and in Paris with a dissertation on the prose of Juan Carlos Onetti. He is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of Lille. In addition to teaching, he writes fiction. His three most recent books are: Bruxelles piano-bar (2010), Barcelona senza fine (2011), and this year’s La fuente del relato (The Story’s Source). (Photo: J.Foley)

Thibault de Montaigu is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in Libération, Le Figaro, Jalouse, Paris Match, L'Officiel, l'Optimum, Milk Magazine and Barzon. He has written four books; his most recent novel, Zanzibar, was published last year by Fayard Editions and is coming out in Spanish by Mardulce in 2014. His essay Le sexe imaginaire is forthcoming in 2015 by Grasset.

Fernando Montes Vera is an Argentinian writer and linguist. He has taught Spanish and Academic writing in universities both in the US and his home country. Currently, he teaches at a federal prison through the University of Buenos Aires, where he also works as a researcher and translator for the Analysis of mass media languages and Sociolinguistics courses. His first novel, The Reed College Massacre (Dakota novel award, 2012), narrates a journey to U.S. academia within the theoretical and methodological framework of a mass shooting. As a reader and spectator, he feels inspired by the theatrical work of Maruja Bustamante and the poetry of Diego de Aduriz. He looks forward to translating their works in the future. (Photo: Paula Salischiker)

Joel Morris received Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies in 2011 from Northwestern University, where he has continued to teach courses in language and literature. His stories and articles have appeared in American Literary Review, The German Quarterly, and The Journal of Modern Literature, among others. He has just completed a novel. 

Adam Morris Adam Morris is a writer and translator in San Francisco. His translation of Hilda Hilst’s With My Dog-Eyes is forthcoming from Melville House this spring.

Miguel Muñoz was born in Quito in 1990, but was raised in a small coastal town. He studied Literature and Journalism. He is the co-founder and editor of Matavilela. His writing has been published in Cartón Piedra, Expreso, Hoy, Gkillcity, and Ojo Seco. Almost daily he tells stories and recommends stuff on his Twitter account: @migueldixit

Julia Napier was born in the United States. She studied Literature at Haverford College in Philadelphia and received an MFA in creative writing from Goldsmiths College in London. She is a writer, translator, photographer, and yoga instructor. She has lived in Buenos Aires with her husband and two children for twenty years. Among her many publications in Argentina and elsewhere are Argentina as seen by 25 women from 18 countries and the anthology Argentinian Women. She recently collaborated on the script of Paula Schargorodsky's "35 and Single" and the artist Lendro Erlich's book The Ordinary.

Marfa Nekrasova was born in Moscow. She is an art critic and historian for GITIS, the Academy of Theatrical Arts in Moscow. She has participated in archeological expeditions in the Ukraine, like the Church of the Diezmos in Kiev and Beliaus, the Greek-Scythian settlement in Crimea. She has written for various Moscow media venues and published a guide about secret places in Moscow. Attracted by Latin American cinema, she moved to Buenos Aires to study screenwriting in the Eliseo Subiela film school. She translates contemporary theater plays from Russian and is organizing the Rantes short film festival.

Laura Cecilia Nicolás was born in Buenos Aires and studied Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. She spent a few years living in Germany and France, where she earned an MA in Philosophy and Contemporary Cultural Criticism at the University of Paris VIII. Laura has held fellowships at the Goethe-Institut in Berlin and the DAAD. Now she lives in Buenos Aires, where she works as a translator and interpreter of German, French, and English, in addition to her work as an affiliated researcher with the Department of German Literature of the University of Buenos Aires.

Alex Niemi is a translator from French, Spanish and Russian studying at the University of Iowa’s MFA program in Literary Translation. She is also currently working with Chilean author Matías Correa and Uzbek poet Alina Dadaeva. Latin American readings she's recently enjoyed include Federico Falco and Marosa di Giorgio.

Julia Ostmann translates from Spanish. Currently she studies creative writing, Spanish, and the history of science at Harvard University, where she writes for several student newspapers and magazines. In Buenos Aires, she has taken classes at the University of Buenos Aires, Torcuato di Tella University, and the National University Institute of Art. Some of her literary role models include Zadie Smith, Gabriela Mistral, Joan Didion, Alfonsina Storni, Karen Russell, and Thornton Wilder. She is a native Southern Californian.

María Agustina Pardini was born in Argentina and is passionate about books, drama and traveling. She graduated as a Literary Scientific Translator and, years later, did a Masters in English Language. She started studying drama at a very early age, and has acquired diverse acting techniques from a variety of schools. She is currently studying Comparative Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She works as a theatre writer for various magazines and journals in both English and Spanish. She fell in love with London the first time she went there to take a course, and has not been able to stop herself from returning ever since. She is also fluent in French.

Edmundo Paz Soldán is a professor of Latin American literature at Cornell University. He is the author of ten novels, including Río Fugitivo (1998), La materia del deseo (2001), Palacio Quemado (2006), Los vivos y los muertos (2009) and Norte (2011); and of the short story collections Las máscaras de la nada (1990), Desapariciones (1994), Amores imperfectos (1998) and Billie Ruth (2012). He is also the co-editor of Se habla español (2000) and Bolaño salvaje (2008). His most recent book is Iris (Alfaguara, 2014). His work has been translated into ten languages and has received numerous prizes, including the Juan Rulfo prize for short fiction (1997) and Bolivia's National Prize for the novel (2002). He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2006. He is a contributor to various publications, including El País, La Tercera, Etiqueta Negra, Qué Pasa (Chile) and Vanity Fair (España).

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, essayist, and translator. His book The Ground, won the 2013 GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry. His other books include When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, and a translation from the Catalan of Salvador Espriu's Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth. Phillips has taught at Harvard and Columbia and is currently Associate Professor of English at Stony Brook University, where he directs the Poetry Center. He is the recipient of the 2013 PEN Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry.

Melissa Phipps is a writer and City Parks/anti-golf activist. She graduated from Barnard and Columbia’s MFA program and has had stories published in New Letters, Arkansas Review, and Prairie Schooner. At the moment she is finishing her as yet unnamed memoir. She has had a long romance with South American writers including Neruda and Clarice Lispector, but it is the collected short stories of Marquez that she uses as a shield against Thanksgiving dinners and other disagreeable situations. She lives in New Orleans, that unwitting twin of Buenos Aires, a hallucination of a city translated into Criollo by Borges.

Sergio Pitol was born in Puebla, 1933. Mexican novelist, essayist and translator. His novels are exercises in style which, with erudite humor, bring forth a disenchanted gaze upon reality. He’s published twenty novels and a book of essays, The Art of Flight, forthcoming by Deep Vellum Publishing, of which The marquise… is a chapter. In 2005 he received the Prize Cervantes for his lifelong contribution to literature.

John Pluecker is a writer, interpreter, and translator. His work is informed by experimental poetics, radical aesthetics and cross-border cultural production. His texts have appeared in journals in the U.S. and Mexico, including The Volta, Mandorla, Aufgabe, eleven eleven, Third Text, Animal Shelter, HTMLGiant and Literal. He has also done textual improvisation with experimental musicians and dancers, and has translated numerous books from the Spanish, including Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border, Feminism: Transmissiones and Retransmissions, essays by leading Mexican feminist Marta Lamas, and Magnitud/e, a chapbook of conceptual poetry by Marco Antonio Huerta and Sara Uribe. He has published three chapbooks, Routes into Texas, Undone, and Killing Current.

Kenneth Pobo has a new book forthcoming from Blue Light Press called Bend Of Quiet. In 2013 Eastern Point Press published his chapbook called Placemats. He teaches creative writing and English at Widener University in Pennsylvania.

Gabriela Poma is of Salvadoran and Nicaraguan parentage, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She lives between the U.S. and Central America with her husband and three children.

Anne Posten translates contemporary German poetry and prose. Her translation of Tankred Dorst’s novella This Beautiful Place appeared with Hanging Loose Press in May 2012, and her translations of poetry by Thomas Brasch and Uwe Kolbe have appeared inWords Without Borders and FIELD. In 2008, she received an honorable mention from the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation for her proposal to work on Albert Ostermaier’sHeartcore. She currently resides in Queens, New York, while pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, CUNY, where she also teaches in the English Department.

Daniel Evans Pritchard is a poet and critic from Boston. He is the founding editor of The Critical Flame, a journal of long-form reviews and criticism, and works as the Marketing Director for Boston Review. His poems have appeared in The Battersea Review, Little Star, Fulcrum, and elsewhere. Currently working on a new English-language edition of Antonio Machado’s poetry, Daniel has also tried his hand at translations of Sergio Raimundi, Selen Catalina Arango Rodríguez, José Agustín Goytisolo, Rafael Alberti, and Juan Ramón Jiménez, among others. All art is a form of transcendent failure, none more so than translation.

Agnieszka Julia Ptak studied literature at the graduate level at the University of Buenos Aires. She teaches workshops on Argentine and Latin American literature as well as English and Spanish as Second Languages.  From time to time, she publishes and/or translates. Her obsession with reading is longstanding. She always read and still reads (almost) anything that falls into her lap.  Among the places she has visited recently are Uhart, Goytisolo, Nielsen, Piñera, Arlt, Neuman, Casas, Kapuściński, as well as others. Another of her obsessions and passions is new languages. Hence she is now studying her forgotten mother tongue, Polish, as well as beginning her study of the cinematographic idiom.

Nuno Ramos (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1960) is a visual artist, film director, and writer. His art has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including the 1995 Venice Biennale, where he represented Brazil. In 2007 he was awarded the Barnett Newman Foundation Prize in recognition of his work. Nuno has published poetry, such as Cuyo and Junco; essays, such as Ensayo general and Ó; and fiction, such as O pao de corvo and O Mau Vidraceiro. He has won the Portugal Telecom Literature prize twice: once in 2001 for Junco and again in 2008 for Ó.

Victoria Redel is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Woman Without Umbrella, and three books of fiction with a new collection of stories, Make Me Do Things, forthcoming in the fall of 2013. Loverboy was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and was adapted for a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Redel is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for The Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center. She currently serves as vice president of PEN American Center. She says: I have been quite influenced by many of the Central American poets, Claribel Allegria among them, and am a big reader of Clarice Lispector. My first novel was translated into Portuguese, which was a lovely thing.

Giovanna Rivero is passionate about literature and language. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studied translation and editing until she moved to Ireland in 2011. Since then, she has been working as an interpreter and language teacher while also working on literary translations for pleasure, such as “Knock, knock” by Brock Clarke for the Iowa Review and volunteer as a translator and interpreter for the Irish Latin American Solidarity Centre. Through her passion for art, literature, music and education, she has a deep belief in the use of culture as a tool to bridge the World’s communication divisions.

Alejandra Rivero is passionate about literature and language. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studied translation and editing until she moved to Ireland in 2011. Since then, she has been working as an interpreter and language teacher while also working on literary translations for pleasure, such as “Knock, knock” by Brock Clarke for the Iowa Review and volunteer as a translator and interpreter for the Irish Latin American Solidarity Centre. Through her passion for art, literature, music and education, she has a deep belief in the use of culture as a tool to bridge the World’s communication divisions.

Paola Cortés Rocca holds a PhD in Romance Languages & Literatures from Princeton University. She has taught at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Southern California, and San Francisco State University, where she served as Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages. She is currently a Conicent fellow, teaching at UNTREF. Her books include El tiempo de la máquina (Machine Time) and Eva Perón: Imágenes de vida, relatos de muerte (Eva Perón: Images of Life, Stories of Death), which she co-authored with Martín Kohan. She co-edited Políticas del sentimiento (Sentimental Policies) and has published essays on photography and aesthetics in magazines like October, Mosaic, Iberoamericana, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, among others, on the works of such photographers as Andrés Serrano, Alejandro Kuropatwa, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Eduardo Gil, Marcelo Brodsky y Gabriela Liffschitz, among others. (Photo: Sebastian Freire)

Michael Romano is a writer based in New Haven.

Andrea Rosenberg translates from Spanish and Portuguese. Her translation of David Jiménez's powerful collection of essays on Asia, Children of the Monsoon, will be published later this year. Among her favorite Latin American writers are Luis Sepúlveda (whose absolutely brilliant Patagonia Express was translated into English as Full Circle by Chris Andrews), Angélica Gorodischer, and Tomás González.

Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Among her published and forthcoming full-length translations are Tomás González’s The Storm (Archipelago Books 2018), Inês Pedrosa’s In Your Hands (AmazonCrossing 2018), Aura Xilonen’s The Gringo Champion (Europa Editions 2017), Juan Gómez Bárcena’s The Sky over Lima (Houghton Mifflin 2016), and David Jiménez’s Children of the Monsoon (Autumn Hill Books 2014). She holds an MFA in literary translation and an MA in Spanish from the University of Iowa, and she has been the recipient of awards and grants from the Fulbright Program, the American Literary Translators Association, and the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.

Anna Rosenwong is a translator, editor, poet, and educator. Her publications include Rocío Cerón’s Diorama (winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award), several chapbooks, and a collection of poetry by José Eugenio Sánchez (forthcoming from Autumn Hill Books). She is the translation editor of Anomaly. See more at annarosenwong.com.

Samuel Rutter is a writer and translator based in Melbourne, Australia. A contributing editor to the journal Higher Arc, he is currently completing his PhD in post-milennial fiction from the Southern Cone of Latin America at the University of Melbourne. This year he is a visiting researcher at the Instituto de Letras Hispanoamericanas at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Dany Salvatierra is a writer, graphic artist and art director. He graduated from the Communications department of the University of Lima, where he specialized in cinema. His stories have appeared in a diverse number of international publications such as The Portable Museum and El Cuento Peruano 2001-2010. His collection of stories Group Therapy was chosen by readers of Buenselvaje magazine as one of the decade’s greatest works of fiction. In 2012, his novel The Berlin Syndrome was awarded the ‘Premio Luces’ award for ‘Best Novel of the Year’ by the newspaper El Comercio, and will be published in the United States in 2014, as well his new novel which will be released this year. He is also currently writing a novel in English called The Missionary Position. His work is influenced by telenovelas, sentimental novels and transgressive fiction. Photo: Vicente Mosto.

Belén Agustina Sánchez studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She is also a drummer and a rock journalist. She contributes to independent publications on youth culture with translations, reviews of concerts, books, and records, and she has interviewed, among others, her favorite German band Die Toten Hosen. She likes playing videogames. She always asks Santa for Robert Lawrence Stine and Stephen King; an enigmatic edition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own has been with her since her adolescence. She is studying German and Sanskrit.

Ramiro Sanchiz (Montevideo, 1978) has published, among others, the following novels: El orden del mundo, Ficción para un imperio and La historia de la ciencia ficción uruguaya, as well as a book of short stories entitled Algunos de los otros. His stories have appeared in anthologies such as Hasta acá llegamos -relatos del fin del mundo, Buenos Aires Próxima, and Aventurero; and in magazines such as Lento, Otro Cielo, Specimens, Axxón, Próxima, and Narrativas. He regularly writes criticism and reviews for the Uruguayan newspaper La Diaria.

Eugenia Santana Goitia studies Literature at the University of Buenos Aires and works as a researcher at the National Library of the Argentina Republic. She plays bridge and studies German. She is currently working on her first novel and on a dissertation about the letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was an essential—and eccentric—influence on German modernism. His fantastic tales and drawings are as delightful as they are visionary, and after long English-language neglect, several new translations of his work will be appearing in English this year.

Ariel Schettini is a poet, critic, and professor of literary theory at the University of Buenos Aires. He has published two volumes of poetry: Estados Unidos (1994), and La Guerra Civil (2000).  His work has been translated into English, Portuguese, and French. In 1995, he was sponsored by the United States Embassy to participate in the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa. His long-form essay, El tesoro de la lengua. Una historia Latinoamericana del yo (2009), revisits and rereads the most canonical poems in the Spanish language. His latest book, Ariel Schettini Presenta, is a collection of his introductions to Latin American books and is forthcoming from Editorial Casanova.

Max Seawright is a PhD student at Harvard University, where he teaches courses on Brazilian media and Portuguese language. His dissertation examines the representation of body politics in Latin American book illustrations. Max has translated works by Irene Lisboa and Chacal. He is currently translating several Brazilian graphic novels.

Rostyslav Shkirko  is currently a student at the University of Buenos Aires, where he is majoring in Communications. He is a translator and an aspiring writer originally born in Ukraine.

David Shook David Shook grew up in Mexico City before studying endangered languages in Oklahoma and poetry at Oxford. His collection of poems Our Obsidian Tongues, longlisted for the 2013 Dylan Thomas Prize, is available from Eyewear Publishing. He served as Translator in Residence at the Poetry Parnassus in London, where he premiered his covertly filmed documentary Kilometer Zero, featuring Equatorial Guinean poet Marcelo Ensema Nsang. His translations include Mario Bellatin's Shiki Nagaoka, Oswald de Andrade's "Cannibal Manifesto," and Roberto Bolaño's manifesto "Leave Everything, Again." He lives in Los Angeles, where he edits molossus and Phoneme Media. Photo: Crispin Hughes.

John Oliver Simon  is a distinguished translator who has brought Gonzalo Rojas, Elsa Cross, Alberto Blanco, Jorge Fernández Granados, Eduardo Milán, Paulina Vinderman and Alicia Salinas, among others, from Spanish into English. He is Artistic Director of Poetry Inside Out, a program that teaches kids to write poetry via literary translation. One of his poems is engraved in bronze on the sidewalk in the Poetry Walk of his hometown of Berkeley. He edits the on-line journal Aldebaran Review. He is the grandfather of Tesla Rose Simon Moyer, born in 2008.

Rachael Small is a translator from French and Spanish into English.  In 2010, she worked with Pola Oloixarac as part of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where she received her MFA in Literary Translation in December 2012 with her translation of the book My Morocco by Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa. In the summer of 2012, she was one of three student residents at the Banff International Translation Centre. Her translations have appeared in Fiction France IX and XI. Although she currently works at the Book Department of the French Embassy in New York City, she was ultimately drawn to translation by contemporary Mexican poetry and short fiction, and would love to translate Mis Días en Shanghai by Aura Estrada.

Natalka Sniadanko has published six books of fiction, in addition to short stories and poems in literary journals and anthologies. She is a talented translator, fluent in German, Polish, English, and Russian in addition to her native Ukrainian. Her translations include Nobel Prize winners Czesław Miłosz and Günter Grass as well as Franz Kafka and Zbigniew Herbert. She is the Ukrainian editor for the trilingual online journal RADAR. She has won numerous prizes for both her writing and her translations and has held residencies in Poland and Germany. The first chapter of her wonderful novel The Passion Collection, or: The Adventures and Misadventures of a Young Ukrainian Lady can be found in Jennifer Croft’s English translation here.

Dorothy Spears is an arts journalist, and frequent contributor to the culture pages of the New York Times. “Flight Patterns: A Century of Stories about Flying,” an anthology she published in 2009 with Open City Books/Grove, is in some ways inspired by Borges’ fascination with taxonomies. Including short fiction and non-fiction, by a range of authors, from Orville Wright, Amelia Earhart, and James Salter, to Mary Gaitskill and David Sedaris, it attempts to trace the evolution of air travel from a high-risk experiment involving a few visionary pioneers to an efficient—and often dehumanizing—means for distributing masses of people around the planet. “The Birthday Card” is Spears’s first published work of fiction.

Sacha Sperling is a French author born in 1990. His first novel, Mes illusions donnent sur la cour was one of the darlings of the French rentrée in 2009, and was translated into multiple languages. After his second, Les Cœurs en skaï mauve (2011), his third novel came out in September 2013, J’ai perdu tout ce que j’aimais, with Fayard. The title alludes to a song by Alain Souchon. He began writing after reading Bret Easton Ellis, and still reads many American authors. He enjoys getting high and watching American reality shows. He lives in Paris.

Ilan Stavans is the author, most recently, of Reclaiming Travel (Duke, with Joshua Ellison) and Quixote: The Novel and the World (Norton). He has translated Juan Rulfo’s The Plain in Flames (Texas, with Harold Augenbraum) and Mariano Azuela’s The Underdogs (Norton, with Anna More), among others. His graphic novels include El Iluminado (Basic, with Steve Sheinkin) and A Most Imperfect Union (Basic, with Lalo Alcaraz). Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and publisher of Restless Books.

Ramon Stern is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. His dissertation explores both the impressions of literary critics and the creative narrative strategies of authors themselves surrounding Middle Eastern ethnic identities in Brazil and in Israel. His research interprets “minority literature” through attention to the interaction of narrative forms and structure with the social category of Arab ethnicity in two disparate national contexts. The list of authors from Latin America that have impacted him is quite long, and includes García Márquez, Borges, Cortázar, José María Arguedas, Juan Rulfo, Vargas Llosa, João Ubaldo Ribeiro, Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector and a Lebanese Brazilian author from his dissertation, Raduan Nassar. Reading in Spanish and then Portuguese inspired him to read more in English, and thus Latin American literature has always had a crucial role to play in his literary formation.

Veronica Stigger was born in Porto Alegre, but has lived in São Paolo since 2001. She is a writer, art critic, and university professor. She has published seven books, five for adults—O trágico e outras comédias (2003; 2004; 2007), Gran Cabaret Demenzial (2007), Os anões (2010), Massamorda (2011) and Delírio de Damasco (2012)—and two children’s books—Dora e o sol (2010) and Onde a onça bebe água (2012), co-written with Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. Her stories have been translated into Catalan, Spanish, French, Swedish, English, and Italian.

Corine Tachtiris has had a long-standing interest in literature from the Caribbean—what J. Michael Dash calls “the Other America.” She is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in translation studies at Hampshire College and has written scholarly articles on Haitian immigrant literature. Corine also translates contemporary fiction and poetry by Haitian women writers. She believes Roberto Bolaño wrote the most exquisite line of poetry ever: “squirrels of fire jumping through trees of fire.”

Qiaomei Tang Qiaomei Tang, a native of Zhejiang, China, is a Ph.D. student at Harvard University where she studies early medieval Chinese poetry and literature, and teaches Chinese language courses. Her dissertation examines the representation of divorced women in early medieval Chinese writings. She most recently translated Chapter 3 of Cambridge History of Chinese Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Cayley Taylor was born in Canada. She fell in love with most things Rioplatense during a stopover en route to Mexico City in 2004. She lives in Buenos Aires and idolizes Jane Bowles.

Rabi Thapa is a writer and editor based in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is the author of the short story collection Nothing to Declare and the editor of the bilingual literary journal La.Lit. He’s been an admirer of Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa ever since he encountered their work as a student of literature, and recently, a friend moving away from Nepal returned a birthday present, to his utter delight: Jorge Luis Borges’ Collected Fictions. Rabi is working on a novel about a journalist who goes mad.

Aaron Thier is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Nation and The New Republic. His first novel, Studies in Paradise, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2014. He and his wife, the poet Sarah Trudgeon, live in north Florida. He has lately been astonished by Martin Adan’s The Cardboard House, just out in a new translation by Katherine Silver, and carries a copy of Márquez’ Autumn of the Patriarch wherever he goes. He does not need to carry his Borges with him, however, because Borges is with him always.

Rafael Toriz has published the illustrated bestiary Animalia (2008, lithographs by Édgar Cano), the collection of stories Metaficciones (2009), the essay compilation Del furor y el desconsuelo (2012), the fragmented book Serenata (2013) and the somehow unclassifiable work entitled La ciudad alucinada (2013). For his work as an essayist he has been awarded the national essay prizes Carlos Fuentes (2004) and Alfonso Reyes (2012). He contributes to different magazines both in Mexico and abroad. At present, he lives in Buenos Aires.

Vincent Toro is a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, and educator living in the Bronx. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University. Recent publications include poems in Chorus (MTV Books), The Waiting Room Reader II (CavanKerry Press), and Kweli Literary Journal. His play, 21, is now showing at Repertorio Español in New York. Vincent’s path in verse and on the stage is lit by the legacy of experimental and politically charged poets from Latin America. He is currently intoxicated with the words of Raúl Zurita, Roberto Juarroz, Salgado Maranhão, and Daisy Zamora.

Fernanda Trías was born in Montevideo, and has published the novels Cuaderno para un solo ojo, La azotea, Bienes muebles (released in Spain as La ciudad invencible) and a plaquette of short stories titled El regreso. La azotea was selected by El País Cultural as one of the best books of the year, and won third prize in the Édita National Literature Awards in 2002. Her stories appear in anthologies published in Germany, Spain, England, Peru, Uruguay and the United States, and she was awarded a BankBoston National Culture Award in 2006. She was the student and friend of the writer Mario Levrero, and worked with him on the publication of De los flexes terpines, a collection of fiction from Uruguay. In 2004 she was awarded a Unesco-Aschberg grant to travel to France, where she lived for five years. She is a translator from the English and holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Spanish) from NYU. She currently resides in New York City. (Image: Fernanda Montoro)

Eliana Vagalau is a PhD candidate in Francophone literature at Northwestern University and a translator from French, Italian and Romanian -http://elianavagalau.wix.com/translator-.  Her critical work has mostly been concerned with French Caribbean authors such as Jean-Claude Charles and Dany Laferrière.

Lara Vergnaud is a literary translator whose work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, PEN America, Inventory, Salon II and TWO LINES, among other publications. In 2013, Lara received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her translation of Zahia Rahmani’s France, story of a childhood. Her co-translation of Marie-Monique Robin’s Our Daily Poison (recipient of a 2014 Hemingway Grant) is forthcoming from the New Press. She lives in New York City.