Alec Schumacher

Alec Schumacher is Associate Professor at Gonzaga University. His research interests are Latin American poetry, translation, and avant-garde poetics. His publications have been focused on Chilean poets Juan Luis Martínez and Elvira Hernández. His recent translations include works by Elvira Hernández and Carlos Cociña. In 2019, he published The Chilean Flag, a translation of Elvira Hernández’s book which was nominated for the 2020 National Translation Award in Poetry by the American Literary Translators Association.