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Robin Myers
Robin Myers is a poet and Spanish-to-English translator. She won the 2026 Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation and the 2025 National Book Award in Translated Literature. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she was also longlisted for the International Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry, and a finalist for the 2024 Reina Sofía Translation Award. Recent book-length translations include The Summer of the Serpent by Cecilia Eudave (2026), Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo (2025), Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza (co-translated with Sarah Booker, 2025), and A Father Is Born by Andrés Neuman (2025). 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. She is represented by Jessica Friedman of Sterling Lord Listeric.