Robin Myersis a Mexico City–based translator and poet. She was among the winners of the 2019 Poem in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets). Recent book-length translations include The Restless Dead,by Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press, forthcoming); Cars on Fire,by Mónica Ramón Ríos (Open Letter, 2020); Animals at the End of the World,by Gloria Susana Esquivel (University of Texas Press, 2020); and Lyric Poetry Is Dead,by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Cardboard House, 2018).
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