Silvina Lopez MedinSilvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and lives in New York. Her books of poetry include: La noche de los bueyes (Madrid; 1999); winner of the Loewe Foundation International Young Poetry Prize; Esa sal en la lengua para decir mangar (Buenos Aires; 2014; That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove; tr. Jasmine V. Bailey; Carnegie Mellon University Press; 2021); 62 brazadas (Buenos Aires; 2015); and Excursión (Buenos Aires; 2021). Excursión was selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Oversound Chapbook Prize (Oversound; 2020). Her hybrid poetry book THE POEM THAT NEVER ENDS was a winner of the Essay Press/University of Washington Bothell Contest (Essay Press; 2021). Her play Exactamente bajo el sol (staged at Teatro del Pueblo; 2008) was granted the Plays Third Prize by the Argentine Institute of Theatre. She co- translated Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet (2015) into Spanish. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares; Hyperallergic; BrooklynRail; and MoMA/post; among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU and is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse. Read More Read Less