Yvette NeisserYvette Neisser is the author of Grip, winner of the 2011 Gival Poetry Prize. Founder of the DC-Area Literary Translators Network (DC-ALT), her translations from Spanish include South Pole/Polo Sur by María Teresa Ogliastri and Difficult Beauty: Seleced Poems by Luis Alberto Ambroggio. Her poems, translations, and essays have appeared in Tikkun, Foreign Policy in Focus, Virginia Quarterly Review, Split This Rock's The Quarry, and numerous anthologies. She has taught writing at George Washington University and The Writer's Center (Bethesda, MD), and has worked in international development and research for 20+ years. Read More Read Less