Kelsi Vanada

Kelsi Vanada's translations include The Visible Unseen by Andrea Chapela (Restless Books); Damascus, Atlantis: Selected Poems by Marie Silkeberg (Terra Nova Press), which was longlisted for the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Into Muteness by Sergio Espinosa (Veliz Books); and The Eligible Age by Berta García Faet (Song Bridge Press). She published Rare Earth , a chapbook of poems (Finishing Line Press). Kelsi holds MFAs in Poetry (Iowa Writers' Workshop) and Literary Translation ...See more

Kelsi Vanada's translations include The Visible Unseen by Andrea Chapela (Restless Books); Damascus, Atlantis: Selected Poems by Marie Silkeberg (Terra Nova Press), which was longlisted for the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation; Into Muteness by Sergio Espinosa (Veliz Books); and The Eligible Age by Berta García Faet (Song Bridge Press). She published Rare Earth , a chapbook of poems (Finishing Line Press). Kelsi holds MFAs in Poetry (Iowa Writers' Workshop) and Literary Translation (The University of Iowa), and works as the Program Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in Tucson, Arizona. See less