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Julia Wong Kcomt (1961–2024) was a Peruvian writer and one of the foremost voices in tusán (Chinese Peruvian) literature. Born into a tusán family in Chepén, Peru, she was the author of eighteen volumes of poetry, including Oro muerto and 18 poemas de fake love para Keanu Reeves; seven books of fiction, including Aquello que perdimos en la arena; and two collections of hybrid prose. Her books in English include Vice-royal-ties (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021) and A Blind Salmon (Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum, 2024).

Jennifer Shyue’s translations from Spanish have appeared most recently in The Margins, The New York Times, and Lit Hub, and have received support from English PEN, the Fulbright Program, the Cornell Institute for Comparative Modernities, the National Endowment for the Arts, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa. Her translations include Julia Wong Kcomt’s poetry collections A Blind Salmon (Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum, 2024) and Vice-royal-ties (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021) and Augusto Higa Oshiro’s novel The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu (Archipelago Books, 2023). She can be found at shyue.co. (updated 8/2024)