Nora E. Carr is a  Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, where her research focuses on literary translation, multilingual texts, and the U.S.-México border. Her translation of Mexican author Jesús Gardea's short story, "Angel of Our Summers," was recently published in the Nashville Review. She currently lives in Queens, New York, and teaches both college writing and literature in translation at Queens College, CUNY.