Gemma Gorga has published six collections of poetry, including Llibre dels minuts (Book of Minutes, Barcelona, 2006), which won the Premi Miquel de Palol, and Mur (Wall, Barcelona, 2015), which won the Premi de la Critica de Poesia Catalana. Her other recent books include her essay on India, Indi Visible (Barcelona, 2018) as well as her own translation from English to Catalan of a book of poems by the contemporary Indian poet Dilip Chitre: Vint esmorzars cap a la mort (Twenty Breakfasts to Death, Vic, 2012). She is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona.

Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Imperfect Present (2022), Manual for Living (2016), Whirlwind (2012), and Burn and Dodge (2008), which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.  She is also the author of two poetry books in translation from Catalan, Gemma Gorga’s Late to the House of Words (Saturnalia Books, 2021), shortlisted for the 2022 International Griffin Poetry Prize, and Book of Minutes (2019). The recipient of a 2021 NEA Fellowship in Translation, she lives in New York City, where she is Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press and teaches poetry workshops. These translated poems from Gemma Gorga are from Voyage to the Center, which is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press.