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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 and is longlisted for the International Booker Prize with We Are Green and Trembling, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she was also shortlisted for the 2025 National Translation Award in Poetry and for the 2024 Reina Sofía Translation Award. Recent book-length translations include Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo, 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 Review, The Common, Harvard Review, Two Lines, Waxwing, 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.