Lawrence Schimel is an award-winning bilingual (Spanish/English) author and literary translator. Recent poetry translations into English include Destruction of the Lover by Luis Panini (Pleiades Press), Impure Acts by Ángelo Néstore (Indolent Books, finalist for the Thom Gunn Award); I Offer My Heart as a Target by Johanny Vazquez Paz (Akashic; winner of the Paz Prize from the National Poetry Series), and Hatchet by Carmen Boullosa (White Pine; winner of the Cliff Becker Translation Book Award); his translations into Spanish include Don't Call Us Dead by Danez Smith (Arrebato) and Bluets by Maggie Nelson (Tres Puntos).