Isabel Zapata Translator & Author

Isabel Zapata is a Mexico City-born writer and editor. She is the author of the poetry book Una ballena es un país and the bilingual essay collection Alberca vacía / Empty Pool (trans. Robin Myers). Recent work has appeared in English translation in World Literature Today, Waxwing, The Common andWords Without Borders. She is a co-founder and publisher at Ediciones Antílope.  Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based poet and translator. Her translations include Copy by Dolores Dorantes (Wave Books), The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero (Cardboard House Press), The Book of Explanations by Tedi López Mills (Deep Vellum Publishing), Cars on Fire by Mónica Ramón Ríos(Open Letter Books), and The Restless Dead by Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press).