Rowena Galavitz

Rowena Galavitz (Long Branch, 1961) is a translator, editor, researcher, and educator. Now based in Albuquerque, she lived in Mexico for twenty-one years, first in Oaxaca and then in Mexico City. Her translations of Mexican literature include The Seamstresses by Elena Poniatowska (Toad Press, 2022), “Change of Aim” by Víctor Vásquez Quintas (Noir Nation, 2012), and The Talking Disease by Jair Cortés (Gláphyra, 2008). In 2018, she won a World Literature Today Translation Prize for poetry. She has translated eight coffee table art books, including Íntimos océanos: Jesús Urbieta, edited by Jorge Pech Casanova (Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca, 2009), and many art catalogs authored by well-known Mexican writers. Rowena holds three master’s degrees from Indiana University in comparative literature (2022), religious studies (2022), and European studies (2016). Rowena currently works as an instructor at the University of New Mexico and a bilingual copy editor. She is completing a certificate in literary translation at her alma mater.