María José Giménez is a Venezuelan-Canadian poet, translator, and editor whose work has received support from the NEA, the Studios at MASS MoCA, the Breadloaf Translators’ Conference, Canada Council for the Arts, and Banff International Literary Translators’ Centre. Author of the chapbook CHELATED (Belladonna*) and assistant translation editor of Anomaly, Giménez has been named 2019–2021 Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts.