Heather Cleary is a translator, writer, and one of the founding editors of the digital, bilingual Buenos Aires Review. Her translations and literary criticism have appeared in Two Lines, A Public Space, and Words Without Borders, among other publications. She is the translator of Roque Larraquy’s 2018 National Book Award-nominee Comemadre (Coffee House Press, 2018), Sergio Chefjec’s The Planets (2013) and The Dark (2014), and Girondo’s Poems to Read on a Streetcar. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from NYU and a PhD in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
Heather Cleary is an award-winning translator whose work with the poetry and prose of writers including Fernanda Trías, María Ospina, Roque Larraquy, Sergio Chejfec, and Oliverio Girondo has been recognized by English PEN, the National Book Foundation, the BTBA, and the Mellon Foundation, among others; her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A member of the Cedilla & Co. translation collective, she has served as a judge for several national translation prizes and was a founding editor of the digital, multilingual Buenos Aires Review. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from NYU and a PhD in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of The Translator's Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction, and is currently writing a novel about translation and betrayal.
Gabriela Jauregui is the author of the novel Feral, the poetry collections Many Fiestas, Leash Seeks Lost Bitch, and Controlled Decay, as well as the short story collection La memoria de las cosas. She edited and coauthored two essay collections Tsunami and Tsunami 2, published in Spanish in 2018 and 2021 respectively. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from USC, an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside, and an MA in Critical Theory from UC Irvine. Her creative and critical work has been included in anthologies, journals, and magazines in the US, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Germany. She is a Soros New American Fellow and a Borchard Fellow, and was selected as part of the Hay Festival's Bogotá 39 best young authors in Latin America. She is cofounder of the Aura Estrada Prize for young women writers and teaches at the National Autonomous University in Mexico (UNAM).