Barbara Riess

Barbara Riess is an award-winning translator and Professor of Spanish and Translation at Allegheny College. Her collection of stories from Cuban author María Elena Llana, An Address in Havana / Domicilio habanero, won the International Latino Book Award for Best Translation of Fiction in 2016. Along with scholarly publications in Latin American Literary Review and Cuban Studies/Estudios cubanos, her other translations include two Chicano novels by Margarita Cota-Cárdenas, Puppet and Sanctuaries of the Heart (with co-translator Trino Sandoval), and selections in Spain: A Traveler’s Literary Companion, Cuba On the Edge, Cuba Counterpoints, and Latin American Literature Today.