irma pineda

Irma Pineda, who is from Juchitán, Oaxaca, Mexico (1974), is the author of many bilingual (Isthmus Zapotec-Spanish) books of poetry, including Chupa Ladxidua’ / Dos es mi Corazón (My Heart in Two, 2018); Naxiña’ Rului’ladxe’ / Rojo Deseo (Red Desire, 2018 and 2021); and Nasiá Racaladxe’ / Azul Anhelo (Blue Longing, 2020). In English translation by Wendy Call, more than 100 of her poems have appeared in U.S. literary journals, including Chicago Review, Kenyon Review Online, and Poetry. Her poetry has also been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and other languages. She is a professor at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional (National Teachers University) in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, and she is a member of the United Nations’ Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Wendy Call is a writer, editor, educator, and translator. Her book No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy (University of Nebraska Press, 2011) won the Grub Street National Nonfiction Book Prize and “Best Political/Historical Book” from the International Latino Book Awards. She is co-editor of Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University (Plume/Penguin, 2007). For her poetry translations, she was won fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Commission, Jack Straw Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Ragdale Foundation.