Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convertiendse en Characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
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He has begun to speak to me
Maram Al-Masri, considered to be one of the most influential and captivating voices of her generation writing in French and Arabic, was born in Latakia, Syria, and moved to France after her university years. She is the author of fifteen poetry collections, including Je te regarde, Cerise rouge sur un carrelage blanc, and Le retour de Walada, and editor of two anthologies, including Femmes poètes du monde arabe. She has received, among other awards, the Prix d’Automne 2007 de Poésie de la Société des Gens De Lettres and the Dante Alighieri Prize. She has been named ambassadrice du Secours populaire. (updated 10/2021)
Hélène Cardona is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry, 2016), and the translator of five books, including José Manuel Cardona’s Birnam Wood (Salmon Poetry, 2018); Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac’s Beyond Elsewhere (White Pine Press, 2016), winner of a Hemingway Grant; and Dorianne Laux’s Ce que nous portons (Éditions du Cygne, 2014). Her own work has been translated into sixteen languages and appears in World Literature Today, The London Magazine, Asymptote, The Irish Literary Times, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships from the Goethe-Institut and Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, she has worked as a translator for the Canadian Embassy in Paris and taught at Hamilton College and Loyola Marymount University. (updated 10/2021)