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 Literature 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-Texto2011) 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 title 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). 

Translator Gary Recz just finished translating Los arquitectos de lo imaginario into English. Other selections 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 journals: 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 journals: 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 just finished the novel, Los traductores del viento.

Margaret Carson translates fiction, poetry, drama and essays from Spanish. Recent translations include Sergio Chejfec’s My Two Worlds and Mercedes Roffé’s Theory of Colors. Her translation of the writings of the Spanish surrealist artist, Remedios Varo, will be published by Wakefield Press in 2016. She is cochair of the PEN America Center Translation Committee, and Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York. 

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