I'M A WRITER AND SPANISH > ENGLISH TRANSLATOR IN OAKLAND, CA
I’ve written detective novels and history books and have translated fiction and nonfiction from Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America and Spain. Publishers of these books have included City Lights, Penguin, Beacon Press, South End Press, Palgrave-MacMillan, St. Martin’s Press, Cubanabooks, Harvard and SUNY and U of Cal presses, and more. My short fiction and poetry translations have appeared in Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Agni, Asymptote, Brooklyn Rail, Zzyzzyva, Tupelo Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Washington Square Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Orion, On the Seawall, and other journals. Writings about literary translation have appeared in Paris Review, Three Percent Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Words Without Borders, Cubacounterpoints, and Translorial. For scholarly nonfiction translations, see "Translations" page, bottom.