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It, was published in 2007.
Her book of poems The
Next Country won the
Kinneret Gensler Prize in
2008 and was published by
Alice James Books.
Lydia Dram is a doctoral
candidate in Comparative
Literature at New York
University, writing on the
representation of the Mafia
in Italian and American
film. She has published
translations from Italian
and Spanish into English.
Susan Duriou has won
awards for both her fiction
and translations. She has
taught translation at the
University of Calgary,
edited the bi-annual
national translation
anthology TransLit, and
helped found the Banff
International Literary
Translation Centre
(BIL TC). She is the
director of BIL TC and also
serves as faculty for The
Banff Centre's Emerging
Aboriginal Writers
residency.
Thalia Pandiri is
Professor of Classics and
Comparative Literature at
Smith College and Editorin-Chief
of the literary
translation journal
MetamO'1J/1Oses.She
translates from Greek,
Italian, and Latin.
Philip Pardi, a poet and
translator, is the author of
A4editations on Rising and
Falling (University of
Wisconsin Press, 2008).
His work has appeared in
Gettysburg Review, Best
New Poets 2006, Exile
Quarterly, Marlboro
Review, Mid-American
Review, New Orleans
Review, Nimrod, and
Seneca Review. He was
the editor of Borderlands:
Texas Poet,y Review
(2003-05).
Barbara Paschke is a
freelance translator living
in San Francisco. Her
publications include
Riverbed of MemOlY by
Daisy Zamora, Clamor of
Innocence, and Volcan (all
from City Lights Books),
Clandestine Poems
(Curbstone), and short
stories in the literary travel
companions to Costa Rica,
Cuba, and Spain (all from
Whereabouts Press).
Michele Pedrini is an
Assistant Professor in the
Languages Division of
Pasadena City College
where she currently
teaches French, Italian,
and a course in translation.
She did her graduate
studies at UCLA in
Romance Literature,
where she taught French,
Spanish, and Italian. She
is currently writing her
dissertation on the possible
influences of Annibale
Caro on Michel de la
Montaigne.
Humberto Perez
Mortera is a Mexican
playwright, translator, and
teacher. He studied at
SOGEM's writers' school
in Mexico City and has
translated plays by Daniel
Danis, Wajdi Mouawad,
and Evelyne de la
Cheneliere, all of which
have been produced. Two
of his own plays have also
been produced. Humberto
was in Banff in 2008
working on a translation of
Evelyne de la Cheneliere's
Desordre public.
Kerri Pierce is a doctoral
candidate in Comparative
Literature at Pennsylvania
State University. She is
also a Translation Fellow
at Dalkey Archive Press,
where she translates from
German, Danish, Dutch,
Portuguese, Spanish,
Norwegian, and Swedish.
She makes her home in
Wheaton, Illinois, but
she's a Texan at heart.
Beth Pollack is Professor
of Spanish and Director of
Graduate Studies for the
MA in Spanish at New
Mexico State University.
Her translations of Cuban,
Cuban-American,
Argentine, Bolivian, and
US authors (into English
and Spanish) have been
published in Puerto del
Sol, Puentelibre, and the
ezine DedI' del agua. Her
current translation project
is JeStlS Barquet's Sin
Fecha de Extincion.
Ruben Quesada is the
AL TA Lyris
adm inistrator/Conference
committee member
(2009). A Spanish
translator, his work has
appeared in Exiledfrol/1
the Throne of Night:
Selections of Poet'y by