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(Verso Books, UK, 1988)<br />

<strong>and</strong> Maryse Conde's L<strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> Many Colors<br />

(<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nebraska<br />

Press, 1999). She coedited<br />

a special issue <strong>of</strong><br />

Metamorphoses on<br />

Francophone liter<strong>at</strong>ure in<br />

transl<strong>at</strong>ion (2003) <strong>and</strong> has<br />

co-transl<strong>at</strong>ed Lascaux: a<br />

Work <strong>of</strong> Memory with<br />

David Ball.<br />

Tony Barnstone is the<br />

author <strong>of</strong> four collections<br />

<strong>of</strong> poetry: Tongue <strong>of</strong> War:<br />

From Pearl Harbor to<br />

Nagasaki (2009), <strong>The</strong><br />

Golem <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles<br />

(2007), Sad Jazz: Sonnets<br />

(2005), <strong>and</strong> Impure<br />

(I999); <strong>of</strong> five books <strong>of</strong><br />

transl<strong>at</strong>ion from the<br />

Chinese; <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> three<br />

world liter<strong>at</strong>ure textbooks.<br />

Among his many awards<br />

are an NEA Fellowship<br />

<strong>and</strong> a Pushcart Prize in<br />

Poetry.<br />

Willis Barnstone's<br />

numerous public<strong>at</strong>ions<br />

include <strong>The</strong> Other Bible<br />

(HarperCollins, 1984), <strong>The</strong><br />

Secret Reader: 50 I<br />

Sonnets (New Engl<strong>and</strong>,<br />

1996), a memoir<br />

biography With Borges on<br />

an OrdinalY Evening in<br />

Buenos Aires (Illinois,<br />

1993), <strong>and</strong> To Touch the<br />

Sky (New Directions,<br />

1999). He has transl<strong>at</strong>ed,<br />

among others, S1. John <strong>of</strong><br />

the Cross, Sor Juana Ines,<br />

Sappho, <strong>and</strong> Rilke.<br />

Art Beck (pen name for<br />

Dennis Dybeck) is a San<br />

Francisco poet with recent<br />

articles on transl<strong>at</strong>ion<br />

appearing in Jacket, OR<br />

(Otis College), <strong>and</strong> Raffle.<br />

Mary Berg is a writer <strong>and</strong><br />

transl<strong>at</strong>or. She has<br />

transl<strong>at</strong>ed a number <strong>of</strong><br />

books from Spanish,<br />

including I've Forgotten<br />

Your Name by Martha<br />

Rivera, River <strong>of</strong> Sorrows<br />

by Libertad Demitropulos,<br />

Ximena <strong>at</strong> the Crossroads<br />

by Laura Riesco, <strong>and</strong> <strong>The</strong><br />

L<strong>and</strong>scape <strong>of</strong> Castile by<br />

Antonio Machado. She<br />

teaches <strong>at</strong> Harvard<br />

<strong>University</strong> Extension <strong>and</strong><br />

Br<strong>and</strong>eis <strong>University</strong>.<br />

Nedra Eileen Bickham is<br />

a transl<strong>at</strong>or, musician,<br />

teacher, <strong>and</strong> explorer <strong>of</strong><br />

the unique coexistence <strong>of</strong><br />

language <strong>and</strong> music. Her<br />

transl<strong>at</strong>ions have appeared<br />

in Passport. Absinthe:<br />

New European Writing.<br />

<strong>and</strong> no man's l<strong>and</strong>.<br />

eXchanges, <strong>and</strong><br />

Metamorphoses. Earlier<br />

this year Nedra completed<br />

her Master's Degree in<br />

German Liter<strong>at</strong>ure from<br />

Tufts <strong>University</strong> in<br />

Boston, Massachusetts.<br />

John Biguenet is the<br />

author <strong>of</strong> Oyster <strong>and</strong> <strong>The</strong><br />

Torturer's Apprentice, as<br />

well as four other books<br />

<strong>and</strong> such plays as Rising<br />

W<strong>at</strong>er <strong>and</strong> Shotgun. Past<br />

president <strong>of</strong> the American<br />

Literary Transl<strong>at</strong>ors<br />

Associ<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>and</strong> an O.<br />

Henry A ward winner, he is<br />

the Robert Hunter<br />

Distinguished <strong>University</strong><br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>at</strong> Loyola<br />

<strong>University</strong><br />

Orleans.<br />

in New<br />

Genevieve Billette's play<br />

Le Pays des Genoux won<br />

Canada's Governor<br />

General's award in 2005.<br />

Her plays have been<br />

produced in France,<br />

Mexico, Switzerl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong><br />

English Canada. She has<br />

also transl<strong>at</strong>ed three<br />

Mexican <strong>and</strong> one C<strong>at</strong>alan<br />

play into French.<br />

Genevieve was in Banff in<br />

2007 working on the<br />

transl<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> a play by<br />

Mexican<br />

Escalante.<br />

writer Ximena<br />

Neil B1ackadder<br />

transl<strong>at</strong>es drama <strong>and</strong> prose<br />

from German <strong>and</strong> French.<br />

His transl<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>of</strong> Swiss<br />

writer Lukas Barfuss' <strong>The</strong><br />

Sexual Neuroses <strong>of</strong> our<br />

Parents has been staged in<br />

London <strong>and</strong> New York.<br />

Neil teaches the<strong>at</strong>er,<br />

including directing student<br />

productions, <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

transl<strong>at</strong>ions,<br />

College.<br />

<strong>at</strong> Knox<br />

Chana Bloch, poet <strong>and</strong><br />

transl<strong>at</strong>or, is the author <strong>of</strong><br />

four books <strong>of</strong> poems <strong>and</strong><br />

co-transl<strong>at</strong>or <strong>of</strong> six,<br />

including <strong>The</strong> Song <strong>of</strong><br />

Songs <strong>and</strong> <strong>The</strong> Selected<br />

Poetry <strong>of</strong> Yehuda Amichai.<br />

She collabor<strong>at</strong>ed with<br />

Chana Kronfeld on<br />

Amichai's Open Closed<br />

Open (PEN A ward for<br />

Poetry in Transl<strong>at</strong>ion) <strong>and</strong><br />

Hovering <strong>at</strong> a Low<br />

Altitude: <strong>The</strong> Collected<br />

Poefly <strong>of</strong> Dahlia<br />

Ravikovitch.<br />

Don Bogen's fourth book<br />

<strong>of</strong> poetry, An Algebra,<br />

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