Give, Eat, and Live - The University of Texas at Dallas

21
scholarly journals,
including Translation
Perspectives,
Communications (Journal
of the international Brecht
Society), Southern
Humanities Review,
Formations, Salmagundi,
Beacons, Semiotexte, and
Internationales
Germanisten Lexikon,
among others.
Becka Mara McKay
teaches translation and
creative writing at Florida
Atlantic University. In
spring 20 I 0 Shearsman
Books will publish her
first book of poems, A
Meteorologist in the
Promised Land, and a new
translation, Blue Has No
South, will be published
by Clockroot Books. Her
translation from the
Hebrew of the novel
LaundlY was published by
Autumn Hill Books in
2008.
Martin McKinsey is
Associate Professor of
English at the University
of New Hampshire. His
most recent translations
from modern Greek
include The Wavering
Scales by Yannis Ritsos
(with Scott King, 2006)
and Acropolis and Tram:
Poems 1937-1977 by
Nikos Engonopoulos
(2008).
Betty De Shong Meador
is a retired Jungian analyst
and former president of the
C.G. Jung Institute of San
Francisco. She has spent
twenty years developing
performances and readings
of Enheduanna's work
with poet Judy Grahn and
actress Olympia Dukakis.
They are currently
planning a conference
performance for The
Enheduanna Society in
their home city of London,
2010.
Pablo Medina is the
author of eleven books,
including Points of
Balance/Puntos de apoyo
(poems) and the novel The
Cigar Roller. With Mark
Statman, he translated
Garcia Lorca' s Poet in
New York. Recipient of
awards for writing and
teaching, he is professor of
Writing, Literature, and
Publishing at Emerson
College.
Erica Mena is a poet,
translator, and designer.
Her translations of Puerto
Rican poet Etnairis Rivera,
Return to the Sea, was
published by Arrowsmith
Press in 2006, and her
poetry has been published
by Pressed Wafer and
Arrowsmith. She has now
entered the MFA program
in literary translation at the
University of Iowa.
Orlando Ricardo Menes
is Associate Professor of
English in the Creative
Writing Program at the
University of Notre
Dame. His third poetry
collection, Furia, was
published in 2005 by
Milkweed Editions. Menes
is editor of Renaming
Ecstasy: Latino Writings
un the Sacred (Bilingual
Press/Editorial Bilingile,
2004) and translator of the
forthcoming My Heart
Flooded with Water:
Selected Poems by
Alfonsina Storni (Latin
American Literary Review
Press, 2009).
Tom Meunier, recipient
of the Walton Fellowship
in Creative Writing for
2009 - 20 I0, is a graduate
student in literary
translation at the
University of Arkansas.
His thesis work focuses on
the radio plays of Gilnter
Eich, and his translation
Eich's Allah hat hundert
of
Namen was performed by
the Red Dragon Theatre
Company in Indianapolis.
Margarita Millar, a
native of Colombia, has
been working
professional
as a
interpreter and translator
for 15 years. She obtained
an M.A. in Comparative
Literature and a B.A. in
Journalism at San
Francisco State University.
Her current work involves
Latin American and
contemporary American
literature and documentary
film making.
Breon Mitchell is a
professor of Germanic
Studies and Comparative
Literature and director of
the Lilly Library at Indiana
University and a past
president of the American
Literary Translators
Association. He was
awarded the Kurt and