Olivia Lott

Olivia Lott is a translator and literary scholar. She is the translator or co-translator of Raúl Gómez Jattin’s Almost Obscene (CSU Poetry Center, 2022), Lucía Estrada’s Katabasis (Eulalia Books, 2020), and Soleida Ríos’s The Dirty Text (Kenning Editions, 2018). Her translations have received recognitions from Academy of American Poets, PEN America, and Words Without Borders. She holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies and is a specialist in the 1960s in Latin America, neo-avant-garde poetry and poetics, and translation studies. Her scholarly writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from PMLA, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Translation Studies. She is Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish at Washington and Lee University. More information at www.oliviamlott.com.