​Daniel Shapiro

Daniel Shapiro is a Distinguished Lecturer in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages & Literatures at The City College of New York, CUNY, where he serves as Editor of Review:  Literature and Arts of the Americas (now published by Routledge in association with CCNY).   Prior to his present position, he worked for many years as Director of Literature at the Americas Society, where he collaborated frequently with Gregory Rabassa on public programming and publications.  Shapiro is the author of three poetry collections—most recently, Woman at the Cusp of Twilight (2016)—as well as a translator of Latin American literature; his translation of Tomás Harris’s Cipango (2010) received a starred review in Library Journal.  He has received grants from the PEN Translation Fund and the National Endowment for the Arts.