Carmen Vascones is an Ecuadorian psychologist/poet/feminist. Translations of her poems by Alexis Levitin have appeared in various magazines such as Birmingham Poetry Review, Bitter Oleander, International Poetry Review, Metamorphoses, Mid-American Review, Osiris, Moon City Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Her book Outrage came out in a bilingual version from White Dwarf Publishers in Montreal in 2018.

Alexis Levitin’s forty-eight books in translation include Clarice Lispector’s Soulstorm (1989) and Eugénio de Andrade’s Forbidden Words,(2003) both from New Directions. He has published five collections of poetry by the Afro-Brazilian poet Salgado Maranhão: Blood of the Sun, Tiger Fur, Palavora, Consecration of the Wolves,and Mapping the Tribe. He has won two NEA Translation Fellowships and has been a translation resident at Banff, Canada, Straelen, Germany, and the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, Italy.