Cristina Pérez Díaz

Puerto Rican writer and translator Cristina Pérez Díaz holds a PhD in Classics from Columbia University and a Masters in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Her critical bilingual edition of José Watanabe’s Antígona was published by Routledge and won the 2023 ASTR Translation Prize. She has published two chapbooks of poetry in Spanish: Adentro crían pájaros (Parawa) and Nueva anatomía imaginaria (La impresora). Her poems and translations have appeared in Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Hayden’s Ferry, Eterna Cadencia, and Periódico de Poesía, among other journals. She teaches Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras).