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Mickey Hess

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Kristin Dykstra is principal translator of The Winter Garden Photograph, by Reina María Rodríguez, Winner of the 2020 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and Finalist for the National Translation Award. Previously she translated numerous poetry editions, such as books by Juan Carlos Flores, Marcelo Morales, Tina Escaja, Rodríguez, and others. Her most recent scholarly chapters examine contemporary poetry by Daniel Borzutzky (US) and Soleida Ríos (Cuba). Selections from Dykstra’s own current poetry manuscript appear in Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, Almost Island, Seedings, Clade Song, The Hopper, La Noria and El Nieuwe Acá (both tr. to Spanish by Escaja), and Acrobata (tr. to Portuguese by Floriano Martins).     

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