Allison A Defreese

Allison A. deFreese is conference chair for the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters. Her books of verse include Nurdles and Other Poems (2022) and The Night with James Dean and Other Prose Poems (winner of Cathexis Northwest Press' 2022 Chapbook Competition). Her translation of a short sample from Verónica González Arredondo's book I Am Not That Body won Pub House Books' International Chapbook Competition (Montreal) in 2020, while her translation of González Arredondo's Green Fires...See more

Allison A. deFreese is conference chair for the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters. Her books of verse include Nurdles and Other Poems (2022) and The Night with James Dean and Other Prose Poems (winner of Cathexis Northwest Press' 2022 Chapbook Competition). Her translation of a short sample from Verónica González Arredondo's book I Am Not That Body won Pub House Books' International Chapbook Competition (Montreal) in 2020, while her translation of González Arredondo's Green Fires of the Spirits was recipient of an NEA Literature Translation grant and published as a bilingual edition by the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla's University Press (Libros BUAP, Puebla, Mexico) in 2022. Her translations of Verónica González Arredondo's poems also appear in Copper Nickel, Harvard Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review. Allison lives in Oregon with several cats. See less