Heather Cleary

Heather Cleary is based in New York and Mexico City. Her writing has appeared in Two Lines, LitHub, and Words Without Borders, among other publications. She is the author of The Translator’s Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction, about the power of translation to challenge norms of intellectual property and propriety. Her other translations include the novels Witches by Brenda Lozano, American Delirium by Betina González, Comemadre by Roque Larraquy, and The Planets, The Dark, and The Incompletes by Sergio Chejfec, as well as a selected works of Oliverio Girondo titled Poems to Read on a Streetcar. Cleary holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian cultures from Columbia University and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.