Silvina López Medin

Silvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. She has published five books of poetry, including La noche de los bueyes (1999), winner of the Loewe Foundation International Young Poetry Prize; 62 brazadas (2015), winner of the City of Buenos Aires Poetry Prize; That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove (2021, tr. Jasmine V. Bailey, Carnegie Mellon University Press); and the chapbook Excursion (2020), selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Oversound Prize. Her hybrid poetry book Poem That Never Ends (2021) was awarded the Essay Press-University of Washington Bothell Book Prize. Her play Exactamente bajo el sol (staged at Teatro del Pueblo in Buenos Aires, 2008) was granted the Argentine Institute of Theater Playwriting Third Prize. She co-translated, with Mirta Rosenberg, Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet into Spanish, and, with Rebekah Smith, Sergio Chejfec’s The Month of the Flies into English. She currently teaches in the writing program at Pratt Institute. She holds an MFA in creative writing from NYU and is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.