Bilingual Reading Series: Potpourri (LIVE)

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Readers

Maria Fink is a PhD candidate in Germanic Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She holds a teaching degree from the University of Salzburg, Austria, and the Certificate in Literary Translation from Indiana University Bloomington. Her translations from German have appeared in No Man’s Land, The Arkansas International, AGNI, Harvard Review Online, The Loch Raven Review, and The Southern Review. Paul Cunningham is the translator of Helena Österlund’s Words (OOMPH! Press, 2019). He has also translated two chapbooks by Sara Tuss Efrik: Automanias (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2016) and The Night’s Belly (Toad Press, 2016). He is the managing editor of Action Books and a PhD candidate at the University of Georgia. Helena Österlund (b. 1978) lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Her debut poetry collection, Ordet och färgerna, was awarded the Borås Magazine Debut Award in 2011. Her latest novel is Att spegla sig i någon annans vatten (Nirstedt/Litteratur, 2020). Inspiration for her work comes from writers such as Thomas Bernhard, Gertrude Stein, Anne Carson, and Samuel Beckett. Gabriel González Núñez is Director of the Translation and Interpreting Programs at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where he trains translators and interpreters and publishes in the field of translation studies. As an author, he has published the poetry collection Ese golpe de luz (FlowerSong Press, 2020). Javier Fuentes Vargas is a poet out of El Salvador. His poetry has been published in magazines and journals throughout Latin America. He is the author of the poetry collection La muerte llegará (Artesanos & Editores, 2019) and the forthcoming Vaho, which will be published bilingually by FlowerSong Press. Dan Bellm has published four books of poetry, most recently Deep Well (2017), and translations of the poets Pura López Colomé (Speaking in Song), Pierre Reverdy (The Song of the Dead), and Jorge Esquinca (Description of a Flash of Cobalt Blue). He teaches translation and poetry at Antioch University Los Angeles.