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About the Author

Rosa Alcalá has published three previous books of poetry, most recently MyOTHER TONGUE. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room, Yaddo, MacDowell, Fundación Valparaíso, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her translation and editorial work include New & Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña and Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña, runner-up for the 2012 PEN Translation Award. Her poems and translations have appeared in Harper's, The Nation, Poetry, and Best American Poetry, among other publications. She is the De Wetter Endowed Chair in Poetry at the University of Texas at El Paso's Bilingual MFA in Creative Writing Program.