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Allison A. deFreese (she/her) is a poet, literary translator, and National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her work appears in Crazyhorse (now swamp pink), Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Hunger Mountain, and New England Review. She is winner of Southeast Review's 2021 The World's Best Short-Short Story Contest and has two poetry chapbooks forthcoming this November 2022, The Night with James Dean and Other Prose Poems (winner of Cathexis Northwest Press's 2022 chapbook contest) and Nurdles and Other Poems.
Her recent literary translations include Víctor Hugo Manzanila's Entrepreneur, María Negroni’s Elegy for Joseph Cornell (Dublin: Dalkey Archive Press, 2020), José Moreno Hernández’s Soaring to New Heights: The Memoir of a Child Migrant Farmworker Who Became a NASA Astronaut (Renuevo, 2020), Víctor Hugo Manzanilla's Entrepreneur ,and Verónica González Arredondo’s I Am Not That Body (Montreal: Pub House Books, 2020), as well as González Arredondo’s book Green Fires of the Spirits (the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla's University Press, Libros BUAP, Mexico, 2022).