Laura Cesarco Eglin

Laura Cesarco Eglin is a poet and translator from Uruguay. Cesarco Eglin translates from the Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, and Galician. She is the translator of Sardine by Miriam Reyes (UDP, 2026). Her translation claus and the scorpion by Galician author Lara Dopazo Ruibal (co•im•press) was longlisted for both the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the 2023 National Translation Award in Poetry. Cesarco Eglin is also the translator of Of Death. Minimal Odes by Brazilian author Hilda Hilst (co•im•press), winner of the 2019 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry. She co-translated from the Portuñol Fabián Severo’s Night in the North (Eulalia Books). She is also the translator of The Mistaken Place of Things by Gabriela Aguirre (Eulalia Books, 2024). Cesarco Eglin is the author of three collections of poetry and five chapbooks, including Break a Part (Finishing Line Press, 2026). Cesarco Eglin is the co-founding editor and publisher of Veliz Books.