Biography

Poeta, ensayista, crítico literario y traductora, CARLOTA CAULFIELD nació y creció en La Habana, Cuba. Desde 1992 ha establecido su residencia de forma casi permanente en el área de la Bahía de San Francisco, con viajes frecuentes a Londres y Barcelona. Es autora de nueve libros de poesía, entre los que se encuentran At the Paper Gates with Burning Desire, The Book of Giulio Camillo (a model for a theater of memory), El libro de Giulio Camillo (maqueta para un teatro de la memoria) / Il Libro de Giulio Camillo (modello per un teatro della memoria), Movimientos metálicos para juguetes abandonados (Primer Premio de Poesía Hispanoamericano “Dulce María Loynaz”, España-Cuba 2002), Quincunce / Quincunx, Ticket to Ride. Essays and Poems, y A Mapmaker’s Diary: Selected Poems (White Pine Press, 2007).

Ha editado las antologías de poesía Voces viajeras. Poetas cubanas de hoy, The Other Poetry of Barcelona. Spanish and Spanish-American Women Poets, and No soy tu musa: Poetas irlandesas contemporáneas. Entre sus premios se encuentran una beca Cintas de Poesía, el Premio Internacional “Ultimo Novecento” (Italia, 1988), y la Mención de Honor en el 1997 Latino Literature Prize del Instituto de Escritores Latinoamericanos de New York. Caulfield también ha recibido una beca Mellon de Investigación, una beca del Hispanic Scholarship Fund, y dos becas de investigación de la Universidad de Londres.

Entre sus intereses de investigación se encuentran el avant-garde y las relaciones interdisciplinarias entre la poesía y el arte. Sus poemas han sido publicados en numerosas revistas literarias de Europa, Latino América y EE.UU. Caulfield es Profesora y Directora del Spanish and Spanish-American Studies Program en Mills College.

Born and raised in Havana, Cuba, CARLOTA CAULFIELD has made her home in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1992 while traveling frequently to London and Barcelona. She is the author of nine books of poetry, among them At the Paper Gates with Burning Desire, The Book of Giulio Camillo (a model for a theater of memory), Movimientos metálicos para juguetes abandonados (First Hispano-American Poetry Prize “Dulce María Loynaz,” Spain-Cuba 2002), Quincunce / Quincunx, Ticket to Ride. Essays and Poems, and A Mapmaker’s Diary: Selected Poems (White Pine Press, 2007). She is also the editor of several anthologies of poetry such as Voces viajeras. Poetas cubanas de hoy, The Other Poetry of Barcelona: Spanish and Spanish-American Women Poets, and the bilingual edition No soy tu musa: Antología de poetas irlandesas contemporáneas (I Am Not your Muse: Anthology of Contemporary Irish Women Poets).

Caulfield’s research interests include the avant-garde and interdisciplinary approaches to poetry and art. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in newspapers and journals in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Her awards include a Cintas Fellowship for Poetry, a Mellon Research Fellowship, a National Hispanic Scholarship and Fund Scholar, two Research Fellowships from the University of London, the 1988 Italian International Poetry Prize “Ultimo Novecento” and the 1997 Honorable Mention of the Latin American Writers Institute of New York. Currently, she is professor and head of the Spanish and Spanish-American Studies Program at Mills College.

MARY G. BERG grew up in Colombia and Peru, lived in Spain, and has taught Latin American literature/studies and translation at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), California Institute of Technology, and Harvard. Currently a Resident Scholar at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center, she teaches Spanish-English Translation at Harvard Extension. She has published extensively on Colombian, Peruvian and Argentinean writers, with particular interest in women’s fiction. In addition, she has participated in collaborative projects that reevaluate the writings of Latin American women. Her translations include three anthologies of recent Cuban fiction (Open Your Eyes and Soar, Cuba on the Edge, New Cuban Fiction), poetry by Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Carlota Caulfield, novels by Martha Rivera (I’ve Forgotten Your Name), Laura Riesco (Ximena at the Crossroads), Libertad Demitrópulos (River of Sorrows), as well as texts by Laidi Fernández de Juan, Clara Ronderos, and Marjorie Agosín. She is now working on the writings of Clorinda Matto de Turner.