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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Gemma Gorga, born in Barcelona in 1968, has published six collections of poetry, most recently Mur (Wall, Meteora, 2015), which won the Premi de la Crítica de Poesia Catalana. She has also published a book of translations by the contemporary Indian poet Dilip Chitre and co-translated a book of poems by Edward Hirsch. Her newest book is her hybrid essay/translations on India, Indi Visible (Quarteres, 2018). She is professor of medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature at the University of Barcelona. (updated 9/2019)
Sharon Dolin is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Manual for Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016). Her work has also appeared in Poetry, The Threepenny Review, AGNI, The New Republic, Plume, and elsewhere. Book of Minutes, her translation of Gemma Gorga’s collection of prose poems, has just been published (Oberlin College Press, 2019), and her cinematic memoir Hitchcock Blonde is forthcoming from Terra Nova Press next spring. A past winner of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and the Library of Congress’s Witter Bynner Fellowship, Dolin founded, in 2014, an international writing workshop in Barcelona, which she continues to direct. She lives in New York City and is associate editor of Barrow Street Press. (updated 10/2019)