Natalia Litvinova & Kelsi Vanada

Photo: Laura Rosal

Natalia Litvinova is a poet, publisher of Llantén, and a translator of Russian poetry. She was born in Belarus in 1986 and lives in Buenos Aires, where she holds poetry workshops. She has published multiple books, including Todo ajeno (Vaso Roto, 2013), Siguiente vitalidad (La Bella Varsovia, 2016), Cesto de trenzas (La Bella Varsovia, 2018), La nostalgia es un sello ardiente (La Bella Varsovia, 2020), Soñka, manos de oro (La Bella Varsovia, 2022), and Amarilis (Llantén, 2024). Her work has been published in Germany, France, Spain, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, and the United States. In 2024, she won the Lumen Prize for her novel Luciérnaga.

Kelsi Vanada is a 2024 NEA Translation Fellow, the author of the poetry chapbook Rare Earth, and the translator from Spanish of Basket of Braids by Natalia Litvinova, United Left by Álvaro Lasso, and The Visible Unseen by Andrea Chapela, among other books. She is Program Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in Tucson, Arizona.