Don’t miss Andrea Chapela and Kelsi Vanada of The Visible Unseen in what is sure to be a fabulous virtual dialogue moderated by poet and translator Robin Myers. This conversation is hosted by Cafe con Libros, an Intersectional Feminist community bookstore and coffee shop in Brooklyn, NY. You can order The Visible Unseen now using the code BUYDIRECT for 15% off.

When: Thursday, October 20 at 7pm ET / 6pm CT
Where: Online via Crowdcast. RSVP here.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Andrea Chapela has a degree in Chemistry from the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and an MFA in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2019 José Luis Martínez National Prize for Grados de miopía. The full English translation of the book is forthcoming as The Visible Unseen with Restless Books in October 2022. Her stories have been published in the journals Tierra Adentro and Este País, as well as in various anthologies. In English translation, her publications include poems in The Brooklyn Rail InTranslation and an essay in Tupelo Quarterly. She was named one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2021 and lives in Mexico City.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Kelsi Vanada is the author of the poetry chapbook Rare Earth, and her book-length translations include The Visible Unseen by Andrea Chapela and Damascus, Atlantis: Selected Poems by Marie Silkeberg, which was longlisted for the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Kelsi holds MFAs in Poetry (Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 2016) and Literary Translation (The University of Iowa, 2017) and works as the Program Manager of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in Tucson, Arizona. She teaches occasional classes on literary translation and is an active reviewer of poetry in translation.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR

Robin Myers is a poet and Spanish-to-English translator. Her latest translations include Salt Crystals by Cristina Bendek (Charco Press), The Forgery by Ave Barrera (Charco Press, co-translated with Ellen Jones), Copy by Dolores Dorantes (Wave Books), The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero (Cardboard House Press), Tonight: The Great Earthquake by Leonardo Teja (PANK Books), and The Book of Explanations by Tedi López Mills (Deep Vellum Publishing). She was double-longlisted for the 2022 National Translation Award in poetry. She lives in Mexico City.