Poet | Translator | Editor

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Poem That Never Ends

Poem That Never Ends
Excursion

Excursion
That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove

That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove
62 brazadas (Spanish)

62 brazadas (Spanish)
Excursión (Spanish)

Excursión (Spanish)
Esa sal en la lengua para decir manglar (Spanish)

Esa sal en la lengua para decir manglar (Spanish)
La noche de los bueyes (Spanish)

La noche de los bueyes (Spanish)
Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet Translated by Silvina López Medin & Mirta Rosenberg

Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet Translated by Silvina López Medin & Mirta Rosenberg
Robert Hass Translated by Silvina López Medin et al.

Robert Hass Translated by Silvina López Medin et al.
Sergio Chejfec's The Month of the Flies Translated by Silvina López Medin & Rebekah Smith

Sergio Chejfec's The Month of the Flies Translated by Silvina López Medin & Rebekah Smith
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SILVINA LÓPEZ MEDIN was born in Buenos Aires and lives in New York. Her books of poetry include: La noche de los bueyes (Madrid, 1999), winner of the Loewe Foundation International Young Poetry Prize, Esa sal en la lengua para decir manglar (Buenos Aires, 2014; That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove, tr. Jasmine V. Bailey, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021), 62 brazadas (Buenos Aires, 2015), winner of the City of Buenos Aires Poetry Prize, and Excursión (Buenos Aires, 2021). Excursion was selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Oversound Chapbook Prize (Oversound, 2020). Her hybrid poetry book Poem That Never Ends was a winner of the Essay Press/University of Washington Bothell Contest (Essay Press, 2021). Her play Exactamente bajo el sol (staged at Teatro del Pueblo, 2008) was granted the Argentine Institute of Theater National Playwriting Third Prize. She co-translated Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet into Spanish and Sergio Chejfec’s The Month of the Flies into English. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, Poetry Daily, Poetry Foundation, and MoMA/post, among others. She has taught in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and in the Spanish Creative Writing MFA at NYU. She currently teaches creative writing at Pratt Institute and Columbia University. She is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.

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