Silvina López Medin

Silvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. Her books of poetry include La noche de los bueyes (1999), winner of the Loewe Foundation International Young Poetry Prize; That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove (trans. Jasmine V. Bailey, 2021); 62 brazadas (2015); and the chapbook Excursion (2020), which was selected by Mary Jo Bang as the winner of the Oversound Chapbook Prize in 2020.

Medin's hybrid poetry book Poem That Never Ends (2021) was a winner of the Essay Press/University of Washington Bothell Contest. Her play Exactamente bajo el sol (staged at Teatro del Pueblo, 2008) was granted the Plays Third Prize by the Argentine Institute of Theatre. She co-translated Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet into Spanish.

Medin lives in Croton on Hudson, New York, and serves as an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.