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Mexican-American intellectual, essayist, and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans is the author, translator, or editor of numerous works. His latest books are, as editor, All the Odes by Pablo Neruda (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); as translator, The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela (W. W. Norton & Co., with Anna More); and as author, A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States (Basic Books, with Lalo Alcaraz). He has been called “the czar of Latino culture in the United States” (The New York Times) and “Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast” (The Washington Post). Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. (updated 10/2014)

Read “Literature and Prayer: A Talk with Ilan Stavans” by Kim Ben-Porat in AGNI Online.

Harry Morales was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, and was raised in New York City. He is the author of Sleepwalkers of Atlantis and The Suit and Skirt Farm, and of a new English translation of Benedetti’s La Trequa (The Diary of Martin Santomé: A Novel). His translations have appeared in various journals. He has also recently completed the English translation of essays which comprise The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays (Oxford University Press). (updated 1998)