2012 Conference Program - The University of Texas at Dallas

Malé’s Woman on the Frontline (sponsored by the Witter BynnerFoundation for Poetry), Antonio Larreta’s The Last Portraitof the Duchess of Alba (Book-of-the-Month selection), andthe short story collection Cuba on the Edge. Her translations ofLuisa Valenzuela, Manuel Puig, Ena Lucía Portela, AlbaluciaAngel, and others have appeared in journals and anthologies.Her translation of Apocalypse Z (AmazonCrossing) is due outin October. Her translations of Nancy Morejón’s love poemsare forthcoming from Cubanabooks.Margaret B. Carson has translated numerous works of fiction,poetry and drama from Latin America and Spain. Hermost recent translation, My Two Worlds by Sergio Chejfec, isout from Open Letter Books.Sultan Catto is a professor of theoretical physics at theCUNY Graduate School and at the Rockefeller University,and was the executive officer of the PhD program at the CityUniversity of New York Graduate School. Some of his poemsare published in literary journals and anthologies, such as YalePoets, The Seventh Quarry (Swansea, Wales), Bhosphorus (Turkey),Paterson Literary Review, and in Noches de Cornelia: AnAnthology of Contemporary Poetry and Long Island Sounds. Hisfirst poetry book, Under the Shadows of Your Falling Words, waspublished by Editions Godot, and a book of Spanish translations,as well as his third and fourth books, are forthcomingthis year.Jerry Chapple has been translating out of German for over35 years. His favorite authors have been the Austrian writerBarbara Frischmuth and the versatile German writer GünterKunert. Recent works include Michael Mitterauer’s majorhistory Why Europe?, Anita Albus’s extended essay On RareBirds, and two thrillers for AmazonCrossing.Allison M. Charette is a native of Midwestern Americansuburbia and an adopted daughter of provincial France.She translates mostly literature and poetry from French intoEnglish. Her most recent book, The Last Love of George Sand,is forthcoming from Skyhorse in early 2013.A Literary Translation MFA student at Queens College,Yves Cloarec focuses on translating French historical novels,currently I, Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra by Bernard Simiot.He runs a computer consulting company, NextWave OfficeSystems, which he founded in 1994. Prior to 1994, he workedfor the French government, and as a translator and interpreterfor the Department of State. Yves currently teaches Englishat Queens College.Dick Cluster is a Spanish-English translator, writer, andteacher. His most recently published translation is AidaBahr’s Ophelias/Ofelias, a bilingual edition from Cubanabooks(Chico, CA); over the past 15 years he has translated a varietyof writers from Cuba, Chile, Spain, Mexico, Colombia, andthe Dominican Republic. His own published work includesthree novels and two books of popular history, most recentlyHistory of Havana (Palgrave, 2008).Jessica Cohen was born in England, raised in Israel, andlives in the U.S. She translates contemporary Israeli prose,as well as commercial material from and into Hebrew. Hertranslations include David Grossman’s critically acclaimed Tothe End of the Land, and works by Etgar Keret, Rutu Modan,Yael Hedaya, and Tom Segev.Jonathan Cohen has translated several books of the poetry ofErnesto Cardenal as well as work by other Spanish Americanpoets. He currently is preparing an edition of William CarlosWilliams’s translation of the Spanish Golden Age novella,The Dog & The Fever, by Pedro Espinosa, for New Directions.Peter Conners is publisher of BOA Editions, Ltd. In partnershipwith the Lannan Foundation, BOA publishes two booksof contemporary poetry in translation per year garnering suchawards as the Best Translated Book of the Year Award, theNorthern California Award for Poetry in Translation, andThe Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.Sean Cotter translates from Romanian, most recently Wheelwith a Single Spoke and Other Poems by Nichita Stãnescu(Archipelago Books). He is associate professor of literatureand Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas,where he is a part of the Center for Translation Studies.Kristi Coulter is the editorial director of AmazonCrossing,Amazon Publishing’s imprint for literature in translation.She is a graduate of the MFA program at the University ofMichigan, where in a previous life she taught literature andcreative writing. Kristi lives in Seattle.Camelly Cruz-Martes teaches at Walsh University in Ohio,and specializes in human rights in Latin American, culturalcompetency, pain and illness narratives, and Spanish forhealth care. She is the editor of Autoepitaph: Selected Poemsof Reinaldo Arenas, under final review at the University ofFlorida Press.Matthew Cwiklinski graduated from University of Iowa inReligious Studies, despite spending most of his time in EssayWorkshops and Linguistics classes. He has taught English asa Second Language since 2008, both abroad and in the U.S.,currently for Kaplan Aspect. He is an MFA candidate andFollett Fellow in Columbia College’s Creative Non-fictionprogram, where he also teaches undergraduate writing.Chad Davidson is the author of the poetry collections TheLast Predicta (2008) and Consolation Miracle (2003), bothparticipants (cont.)36