Jacob Edelstein is a translator from the South Bay of Los Angeles, California. He earned an MFA in Literary Translation from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and holds a certificate in Dialogic-Collaborative Practices from the Taos Institute. He is the translations editor for Defunct magazine and a regular contributing editor to the International Journal of Dialogic-Collaborative Practices. You can read some of his recent literary translation work (from Daniela Catrileo’s Piñen) in The Columbia Journal and The Southern Review.