Juan GelmanJuan Gelman (1930-2014) is the author of over twenty books of poetry and the winner of the 2007 Cervantes Prize, the highest honor for Spanish-language literature. He is widely recognized as the most important Argentine poet of the past fifty years. political exile since 1975, Gelman resided in Rome, Madrid, Managua, Paris, and New York before settling in Mexico City.

Translator Lisa Rose Bradford, born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, holds a PhD in comparative literature from UC Berkeley and is presently teaching at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. Her poems, articles, and translations of contemporary Argentina poets have appeared in a variety of journals. Since 1997, she has edited various compendia on translation and cultural studies, including Traducción como cultura, as well as two anthologies in Spanish: Usos de la imaginación: poetas latin@s en EE.UU. and Los pájaros, por la nieve. She has previously translated Between Words: Juan Gelman's Public Letter (winner of the 2011 National Translation Award from ALTA), Commentaries and Citations, and Com/positions (also by Gelman). Read More Read Less