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Chloe Garcia Roberts is a poet and translator from the Spanish and Chinese. She is the author of The Reveal, which was published as part of Noemi Press’s Akrilika Series for innovative Latino writing and Fire Eater: A Translator's Theology which was a finalist for CLMP's Firecracker Award in creative nonfiction and the New Mexico Book Awards in poetry and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in such publications as the Yale Review, BOMB, Conjunctions, and the Kenyon Review. She lives outside Boston and works as deputy editor of Harvard Review and as a lecturer of poetry at MIT.
Her translations include Li Shangyin’s Derangements of My Contemporaries: Miscellaneous Notes (New Directions), which was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and a collected poems of Li Shangyin published in the New York Review Books / Poets series. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship in translation for her translation of the novel Carne de Dios by Mexican author Homero Aridjis (University of Arizona Press, 2025).
Her translations of children’s literature include Cao Wenxuan’s Feather (Archipelago Books/Elsewhere Editions) which was an USBBY Outstanding International Book for 2019, and Decur’s When You Look Up (Enchanted Lion) which was named a Best Children’s Book of 2020 by the New York Times. Her translation of The True Story of a Mouse Who Never Asked for It by Ana Christina Herreros was also named a Best Children’s Book of 2021 by the New York Times.
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