Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
peter bush's first literary translation was Juan Goytisolo's Forbidden Territory (1989) and he has translated eleven other books by this writer, including The Marx Family Saga (1996) and Exiled from Almost Everywhere (2011), both awarded the Ramón del Valle-Inclán Literary Translation Prize. His translation of Josep Pla's The Gray Notebook won the 2014 Ramon Llull Literary Translation Prize. Recent translations include Quim Monzó's Why?Why?Why? and Barcelona Tales (from Cervantes to Najat El Hachmi). He has also translated classics from Spanish and Catalan and is currently engaged in the translation of Balzac's Le Lys dans la Vallée.
agustín cadena was born in Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, México, and teaches at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. Essayist, fiction writer, poet, and translator, Cadena has won national prizes for fiction and poetry. His more than thirty books include collections of short fiction, essays and poetry, novels, and young adult novels. His work has been translated into English, Italian, Greek, Urdu, and Hungarian.
steven cramer is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Listen (MadHat Press, 2020). The online journal Memorious called Clangings (Sarabande, 2012) "one of our favorite books of 2012"; and Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande, 2004) won the Sheila Motton Award from the New England Poetry Club and a Massachusetts Honor Book citation. Recipient of two Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowships and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he founded and teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University.
patty crane's translations of Tomas Tranströmer's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Guernica, New York Times Magazine, Plume, Southern Review, and elsewhere. Bright Scythe, a bilingual selection of her translations, was published by Sarabande Books in 2015. Crane is the author of the poetry collection Bell I Wake To (Zone 3 Press First Book Award, 2019) and the chapbook something flown (Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award Series, 2018). Her poems have recently appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry East, and Verse Daily.
chelsea b. desautels's work appears in Ploughshares, Missouri Review, Copper Nickel, Willow Springs, Adroit Journal, Pleiades, Ninth Letter, and elsewhere. Natasha Trethewey named Chelsea's manuscript, Metastasis, the finalist for the AWP Award Series's Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Chelsea received an MFA from the University of Houston, where she received the Inprint Verlaine Prize in Poetry and served as Poetry Editor of Gulf Coast. She lives with her family in Minneapolis.
emmalie dropkin holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches a course on writing and climate change. Her writing has appeared in Electric Lit, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and the Kaaterskill Basin Literary Journal, and an anthology of essays she co-edited with Edie Meidav, Strange Attractors: Lives Changed by Chance, was published in 2019 by University of Massachusetts Press. She is a coordinator for the VIDA Count and for Extinction Rebellion Western Massachusetts.
patricia dubrava teaches writing and literary translation at the University of Denver. She has two books of poems and one of stories translated from the Spanish. Her translations of Agustín Cadena's stories have appeared most recently in Mexico City Lit, Exchanges, Asymptote, Numéro Cinq, Cagibi, and Cigar City Poetry Journal, 2019. Her translation of a Cadena story was a finalist for Lunch Ticket's Gabo Prize in 2017.
A past winner of Massachusetts Review's Anne Halley Poetry Prize, joanne dominique dwyer has also received a Rona Jaffe Award, has one book of poems, Belle Laide, from Sarabande Books, two unpublished poetry manuscripts, and is working on her first novel. A poem of hers appears in Best American Poetry 2019. She is grateful to Ellen Doré Watson and the staff of MR.
diamond forde's debut book, Mother Body, was selected by Patricia Smith for the Saturnalia 2019 Poetry Prize and will be forthcoming in Spring 2021. She is a Callaloo and Tin House fellow whose work has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Ninth Letter, The Offing, and more. She is the recipient of the 2019 Margaret Walker Memorial Prize, finalist for the 2019 Georgia Poetry Prize, the Pleaides Press...
