Kristin Dykstra

Kristin Dykstra: is the principal translator of Reina Maria Rodriguez’s The Winter Garden Photograph (UDP, 2019) and, with Kent Johnson, she co–edited Amanda Berenguer’s Materia Prima (UDP, 2018). She is the translator of Cubanology, a book of days by Omar Perez (Station Hill Press), and Other Letters to Milena, a mixed–genre book by Reina Maria Rodriguez published by University of Alabama Press, which has also released her translations of Cuban authors Juan Carlos Flores, Angel Escobar, and Marcelo Morales. The recipient of an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship, she won the inaugural Gulf Coast Prize for Literary Translation.