Intermittent Water

Ana Varela Tafur is the author of the poetry collections Lo que no veo en visiones (2001; first prize, Premio Copé), Voces desde la orilla (2001), Dama en el escenario (2001), and Estancias de Emilia Tangoa (2022), which won Peru’s National Literature Prize for poetry in 2023. Her work can be found in Diálogo, Lucero, Huizache, AGNI, Literary Amazonia, and elsewhere. Born in the Amazon region of Peru, she lives in Richmond, California. (updated 4/2024)

Yaccaira Salvatierra’s debut poetry collection, Sons of Salt, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in September. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, AGNI, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and elsewhere. She is an organizer of the San Francisco International Flor y Canto Literary Festival and is currently translating Estancias de Emilia Tangoa, a poetry collection by Peruvian poet Ana Varela Tafur. She lives in Oakland, California, where she works as an educator. (updated 4/2024)