Bilingual Reading Series: South America (Spanish and Portuguese)

Readers

Lucian Mattison is a US-Argentinian poet and translator and the author of two books of poetry, Reaper’s Milonga (YesYes Books, 2018) and Peregrine Nation (Dynamo Verlag, 2017). His poetry, short fiction, and translations appear in numerous journals, including CutBank,Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hobart, The Offing, Sixth Finch, and Third Coast, and have been featured on poets.org. Diego Alfaro Palma is the author of several poetry collections, including Litoral central (Editorial Libros de Pez Espiral, 2017) and Tordo (Editorial Cuneta, 2014), which received the Santiago Literary Prize in 2015. Alfaro Palma is also the editor of Homenaje a Ezra Pound desde Chile (Editorial Universitaria, 2010). The founder of the publishing house Limache250, he lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jeannine Pitas is a Spanish-to-English literary translator focused on women writers from the Southern Cone. Her most recent translation, We Do Not Live in Vain by Selva Casal, is being published this year by Veliz Books. Elisa Wouk Almino is the translator of This House by Ana Martins Marques, and has translated poetry by Paulo Leminski, Luciany Aparecida, and Ana Cristina Cesar. She was a 2020 BTBA fiction judge and an editor at Words Without Borders. She is currently a senior editor at Hyperallergic and teaches translation at UCLA Extension. Honora Spicer is a poet and educator living in El Paso, Texas. She studied history at Harvard University (MA, 2015) and literature at Oxford University (BA, 2013). She has translated the Peruvian poets Victoria Guerrero Peirano and Tilsa Otta. Anastatia Spicer is a handweaver, seamstress, and writer. She holds a BA in Critical Social Inquiry and Visual Art from Hampshire College (2017) and studied in the Penland School of Craft Textile Arts program. Her writing has appeared in the Barnard Journal of Art Criticism. Victoria Guerrero Peirano is a poet, teacher, and feminist activist with a PhD in Literature and a master’s in Gender Studies. Her most recent work is Y la muerte no tendrá dominio, and her poetry has been translated into multiple languages. She teaches at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.