Marina Yuszcuk is a poet who received her PhD in Literature. She works as a journalist and a film critic for the cultural supplement Las12 of Página 12 and for the magazine La Agenda. She has published various books of poetry: Lo que la gente hace (Blatt & Ríos, 2012), Madre soltera (Mansalva, 2013), and La ola de frío polar (Gog y Magog, 2015). With the press Rosa Iceberg, which she founded with Tamara Tenenbaum and Emilia Erbetta, she recently published Los arreglos (2017), her first book of prose. Her first novel, La inocencia, was recently published by Iván Rosado.
Alexis Almeida grew up in Chicago. Her poems, translations, and essays have appeared recently in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Folder, Prelude, Essay Daily, and elsewhere. She is an assistant editor at Asymptote and a contributing editor at The Elephants. She is the author of the chapbook Half-Shine (Dancing Girl Press) and translator of Florencia Castellano's Monitored Properties (UDP) and Roberta Iannamico's Wreckage (Toad Press). Her translation of Marina Yuszczuk's Single Mother is forthcoming from Spork Press, and her translation of Dalia Rosetti's Dreams and Nightmares is forthcoming from Les Figues. Her chapbook I Have Never Been Able to Sing is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse. She has received awards and fellowships from Yaddo, The Vermont Studio Center, the Center for Book Arts, and the University of Colorado, where she did her MFA. She was a recent Fulbright research fellow to Argentina, and now lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where she runs 18 Owls Press.
