KM Cascia

KM Cascia (fka Brandon Holmquest) is the translator of Mexican modernist Manuel Maples Arce’s Stridentist Poems (World Poetry, 2023). Born in Michigan City, Indiana, Cascia left school at the age of 17 and picked up Spanish working in restaurant kitchens in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. Formerly an editor of the translation journals Calque and Asymptote, they have published two collections of their own poems and their translations of Latin American poetry have appeared in numerous magazines, including Apiary, Circumference, and Anomalous.