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Translated from the Spanish by Rebecca Pelky and Jake Young
Published: Thu Apr 15 2021
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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Matilde Ladrón de Guevara (1910–2009), a Chilean intellectual, writer, and feminist, published nine collections of poetry, six novels, and eight books of nonfiction. She was a candidate for the National Prize for Literature in 2006, and in 2009 received the Career Award of the Society of Latin American and European Writers. (updated 04/2021)

Rebecca Pelky is the author of the poetry collection Horizon of the Dog Woman (Saint Julian Press, 2020). She is a bilingual poet writing in Mohegan and English and is an enrolled member of the Brothertown Indian Nation of Wisconsin. She teaches at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. (updated 4/2021)
Jake Young is the author of the poetry collection American Oak (Main Street Rag, 2018), the poetry chapbook What They Will Say (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2021), and the essay collection True Terroir (Brandenburg Press, 2019). He is poetry editor of Chicago Quarterly Review. (updated 4/2021)
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