Carlo Acevedo is a Colombian poet and, currently, is a Ph.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at the University of California, Merced. Carlo’s first collection of poems, Fortuna del día (Day’s Fortune) , was published in 2019. He holds a master’s degree in Creative Writing in Spanish from the University of Iowa. Carlo has professional experience as a cultural journalist, an editor, a creative workshops guide, and a literature and writing instructor.
Kelsi Vanada is a 2024 NEA Translation Fellow, and she holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. She writes poems and translates from Spanish and collaboratively from Swedish. She cultivates a readership for poetry in translation by writing reviews, and teaches occasional short-term classes and workshops. Since 2018, Kelsi has been the Program Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).