Laura Cescarco Eglin

Laura Cescarco Eglin: is a poet and translator from Uruguay. She translated Of Death. Minimal Odes by Hilda Hilst, which won the 2019 Best Translated Book Award in Poetry. She co–translated from the Portunol Fabian Severo’s Night in the North in 2020. Her translations from Spanish, Portuguese, Portunol, and Galician have appeared in numerous journals. She is the author of five poetry collections of her own, is the co–founding editor and publisher of Veliz Books, and teaches creative writing at the University of Houston–Downtown.