Biography

Argentinian poet LILA ZEMBORAIN has been living in New York since 1985. She is the author of the poetry collections Abrete sésamo debajo del agua (Buenos Aires, Ultimo Reino, 1993), Usted (Buenos Aires, Ultimo Reino, 1998), Guardianes del secreto (Buenos Aires. Tsé-Tsé, 2002) / Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press, 2009, translated by Rosa Alcalá), Malvas orquídeas del mar (Buenos Aires: Tsé-Tsé, 2004) / Mauve Sea-Orchids (Belladonna Books, 2007, translated by Rosa Alcalá and Mónica de la Torre), Rasgado (Buenos Aires: Tsé-Tsé, 2006), El rumor de los bordes (Madrid: Biblioteca Sibila, 2011), and in collaboration with visual artist Martín Reyna La couleur de l’eau / El color del agua (Paris: Virginie Boissiere, 2008; translated by Sarah T. Reyna). From 2000 to 2006 she was the director and editor of the Rebel Road Series, and since 2003 she has curated the KJCC Poetry Series at New York University, where she was formerly the Director of the MFA Program in Spanish. In 2007, she was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow for poetry.

MARIELA MÉNDEZ is Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Richmond, Virginia, where she teaches courses on Latin American Literature and Culture. Her research focuses on transnational feminist approaches to women’s literature of the Americas, on which she has published and presented widely both in the United States and abroad.

DANIEL COUDRIET lives with his wife and son in Richmond, Virginia, and in Carcarañá, Argentina. He is the author of Say Sand (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010) and Parade (Blue Hour Press, 2012). His poems and translations of Argentinian poetry have made recent appearances in Verse, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Parcel, Mandorla, and elsewhere.