Only a Little While Here

Cleary, Heather: - Heather Cleary is based in New York and Mexico City. She is the author of The Translator's Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction and has written about translation for publications such as LitHub, Two Lines, and Poets & Writers. Her other translations include María Ospina's short story collection Variations on the Body, Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda (nominee, International Booker Prize), Recital of the Dark Verses by Luis Felipe Fabre (winner, Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize), Pink Slime by Fernanda Trias, and Comemadre by Roque Larraquy (both nominated for the National Book Award in Translation), as well as a selected works of Oliverio Girondo titled Poems to Read on a Streetcar. Cleary holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian cultures from Columbia University and previously taught at Sarah Lawrence College.