Silvina López Medin

Silvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and lives in New York. Her books of poetry include: La noche de los bueyes (1999), winner of the Loewe Foundation International Young Poetry Prize, Esa sal en la lengua para decir manglar (2014); That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove, tr. Jasmine V. Bailey (2021), 62 brazadas (2015), winner of the City of Buenos Aires Poetry Prize, and Excursión (2021). Excursion was selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Oversound Chapbook Prize (2020). Her hybrid poetry book Poem That Never Ends was a winner of the Essay Press/University of Washington Bothell Contest (2021). Her play Exactamente bajo el sol (staged at Teatro del Pueblo, 2008) was granted the Argentine Institute of Theater National Playwriting Third Prize. She co-translated Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet into Spanish and Sergio Chejfec’s The Month of the Flies into English. She currently teaches creative writing at Pratt Institute and Columbia University. She is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.