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Robin Myers

Robin Myers is a poet and Spanish-to-English translator. She won the 2025 National Book Award in Translated Literature. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she was shortlisted for the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry and for the 2024 Reina Sofía Translation Award. Recent book-length translations include We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (2025), Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza (co-translated with Sarah Booker, 2025), A Father Is Born by Andrés Neuman (2025), What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M. (2024), and The Brush by Eliana Hernández-Pachón (2024). Other translations have appeared in Granta, The Baffler, Kenyon ReviewThe Common, Harvard ReviewTwo LinesWaxwing and elsewhere. As a poet, Robin is the author of the forthcoming Centro (Coffee House Press, 2027). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2022, Guernica, The Drift, Poetry London, Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Annulet Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review, and other journals.