Ximena Gómez

Ximena Gómez has previously been published in World Literature Today. She has been a finalist for Best of the Net, Lunch Ticket’s Gabo Literary Translation Prize, and the Paz Prize.  Her books include Habitación con moscas, Cuando llegue la sequía, and the dual-language poetry collections Último día / Last Day and Conversaciones sobre agua / Conversations About Water in collaboration with George Franklin. She has translated into Spanish Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming (Penguin Random House) and Among the Ruins / Entre las ruinas by George Franklin and was a contributing translator to 32 Poems / 32 Poemas by Hyam Plutzik. She is a translation editor at Cagibi.