Rhett McNeil is a translator, critic, and scholar from Texas. He has published translations of books by Machado de Assis, A.G. Porta, António Lobo Antunes, Gonçalo M. Tavares, and João Almino, among others. He is currently in residence at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship, where he is working on a book project and a couple of new book-length translations, running the Tulsa Sandlot Society, and starting a new publishing house, Left Field Books, whose first two books are coming soon.