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Listed as:

Poet, Translator

Public address:

Tucson, AZ

Arizona US

Email:

kelsivanada@gmail.com

Bio:

Kelsi 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. Since July 2018, she has worked as the Program Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Spanish

Born in:

Raised in:

Website:

https://www.kelsi-vanada.com [2]

Prizes won:

2024 NEA Translation Fellowship (the National Endownment for the Arts)
2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award
Commendation in the Stephen Spender Prize for Poetry in Translation, 2023
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts writing residency recipient, Nov-Dec 2022
Longlisted for the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for Damascus, Atlantis
Translator for Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists, 2021
Longlisted for the 2021 John Dryden Translation Competition, September 2021
Peter Taylor Fellow, Kenyon Review Summer 2020 Translation Workshop
Jules Chametzky Translation Prize Winner, Massachusetts Review, January 2020
Shortlisted for the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute’s 2020 Poetry Translation Award for The Eligible Age, October 2019
Honorable Mention 2018, Gulf Coast Prize in Translation
Winner, 2018 American-Scandinavian Foundation Nadia Christensen Prize in Translation
Shortlisted, Disquiet International Literary Prize 2018
Fulbright Study/Research Awards semifinalist, January 2017 (Translation, Sweden)
ALTA Travel Fellow, 2016
Plughaupt Fellowship recipient, 2016-2017 (grant for a new Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate)
2016 Asymptote Close Approximations contest winner

Education:

University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Prefers to work with:

Any