Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of 14 books including the poetry collections Cinema Muto, which won the Crab Orchard Open Selection Award, Dog Angel, World as Dictionary, and the bilingual Spanish/English poetry collection Extranjera/ Stranger (Yaugarú). Her translations include Invisible Bridge/ El puente invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and The Fable of An Inconsolable Man by Javier Etchevarren which is forthcoming from Action Books. She is also the editor of América invertida: an anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets which is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press. She is the Zona Gale Professor of English and Director of the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.(photo credit: Dan Fuller)

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