Kristin Dykstra

Kristin Dykstra is principal translator of The Winter Gar- den Photograph, by Cuban writer Reina María Rodríguez (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019, with Nancy Gates Madsen), Winner of the 2020 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She guest- edited “Out of Alamar,” a dossier about poet Juan Carlos Flores (1962–2016) for Chicago Review in 2018, and her translation of Cubanology, a multilingual book of days by Omar Pérez, ap- peared in the same year. Previously, she translated four books of contemporary Cuban poetry for the University of Alabama Press, including The World as Presence by Marcelo Morales, longlisted for the National Translation Award.