D. P. Snyder (b. 1960, Philadelphia) is a bilingual writer and translator from Spanish. Her translations have appeared in the Sewanee Review, Exile Quarterly, Two Lines Journal, World Literature Today, and Review: Literature and Art of the Americas. She is a contributor to many magazines and is on the editorial board at Reading in Translation. Her first book-length translation is Meaty Pleasures, a collection by Mexican writer Mónica Lavín (2021).
In Colombian writer Octavio Escobar Giraldo’s first publication in English, it isn’t only the parishioner saying her Hail Marys.
“I confess, Father. I confess that I am happy about the death…