Esther Allen has translated a number of books from Spanish and French, most recently Antonio Di Benedetto's 1956 classic Zama, forthcoming from New York Review Books Classics. She is co-editor, with Susan Bernofsky, of In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means (Columbia University Press, 2013). A 2009 Fellow at the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, she has twice received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres by the French government. She is Associate Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York. www.estherallen.com

Marta López-Luaces was born in A Coruña, Spain, in 1964. She is a poet, a translator and a writer. She holds a Ph. D. in Spanish and Latin American Literatures from NYU (2000).  She is a an Associate Professor at Montclair SU. She published three books of poetry, Distancias y destierros (Sgo. de Chile: Red Internacional del Libro, 1998), Las lenguas del viajero (Madrid: Huerga y Fierro, 2005) and Los arquitectos de lo imaginario (Valencia, Pre-Texto 2011) and a plaquette entitled Memorias de un vacío (New York: Pen Press, 2000).  Los arquitectos de lo imaginario was finalist of the prestigious award Ausiás March (2011). Her work was published in numerous anthologies of Latin America, Spain and United States.

A selection of her work was translated into Rumanian and published under the titled Pravalirea focului (Orient-Occident, 2010). Translated into French a selection of her work was published in the journal étoiles déncre. Revue de femmes ern Méditerranée, 2007. Translated into Portuguese and Romanian,  a different selection of her poems appeared in the journal, www.respiro.org, 2005. Her poetry was also translated into Italian under the title of Accento Magico (San Marco, 2002).  

The translator Gary Recz just finished translating Los arquitectos de lo imaginario into English. Others selection of her poetry work appeared in English in the following anthologies New Poetry From Spain (Talisman, 2012), Poetic Voices without Borders 2 (Gival Press, 2009), and Revel Road’s chapbook series (2004). Her poetry was also published in English in the following literary journal, Mandorla, Tamame and Literary Review. 

She has translated from English into Spanish Selected Works from Robert Duncan (Madrid: Bartleby, 2011), and And For Example by Ann Lauterbach . She also translated poetry from Louis Glück and Janet Kaplan for the following Spanish journal ABC Blanco y Negro, La manzana poética (Cordoba, Spain), La alegría de los naufragos (Madrid, Spain), Terra Incognita: A bilingual poetry journal (New York) and Tamame (California). She with Johnny Lorenz and Edwin Lamboy translated into English New Poetry from Spain: An Anthology (New Jersey: Talisman House, 2012).

She is the co-director of Galerna, a Spanish-language literary journal. She published the collection of short stories, La Virgen de la Noche and she just finished the novel, Los traductores del viento.  

TERESA MLAWER began her career in publishing in 1963. Ms. Mlawer was at the helm of operations at Lectorum Publications from 1976 until her retirement in 2012.Among her many functions at Lectorum, she served as Editorial Director, where she oversaw the acquisition, selection, and editorial development of Spanish-language books for children and young adults. 

A pioneer in Spanish-language publishing in the United States, Teresa has translated over 300 children’s books from English to Spanish. 

She has dedicated her life to the cause of literacy, especially among Hispanic children in the US and Latin America. As a well-known specialist in children’s literature in Spanish, she works with publishers, educators and librarians to bring the best authentic literature to children. She is a strong and vocal advocate for Latino authors and illustrators in the United States. 

In 2012, she was selected by the Federation of Spanish Publishers from Argentina as one of the 50 most influential people in the Spanish publishing world.  

For the last three years she has been a member of the Board of Directors of CONTEXTOS, an international non-profit organization that works with under-resourced schools in El Salvador.

Teresa is also an Executive Board Member of REFORMA NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION.