Odi Gonzales

Born in Peru, Odi Gonzales is an award-winning poet, translator, researcher in Andean oral tradition (XVI-XXI centuries), and professor in Peru and the US. Gonzales is the author of eight poetry collections in Quechua, Spanish, and English. He has also written several scholarly books, and a trilingual Quechua-Spanish-English Dictionary. In 1992, he received the César Vallejo National Poetry Award in Peru. In 2016, his book La Escuela de Cusco was translated into English by American poet and professor Lynn Levin and published in a bilingual edition as Birds on the Kiswar Tree (New York, 2Leaf Press). Gonzales has taught Quechua language and culture at New York University since 2008.