Bio

Chloe Garcia Roberts is a Mexican American poet and translator. She is the author of The Reveal (Noemi Press) and the translator of Li Shangyin’s Derangements of My Contemporaries: Miscellaneous Notes (New Directions), which was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, and a collected poetry of Li Shangyin (New York Review Books). Her translations have appeared in have appeared in publications such as BOMB Magazine, A Public Space, and Poetry International, among others. Recent translations of children’s literature include Cao Wenxuan’s Feather (Archipelago) and Decur’s When You Look Up (Enchanted Lion). She lives in Boston and is managing editor for Harvard Review. 

Project Description

To support the translation from the Spanish of the novel Carne de Dios by Mexican author Homero Aridjis. In addition to publishing more than 40 books of poetry and prose and receiving numerous awards, Aridjis (b. 1940) is also a former Mexican Ambassador to Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He served as international president of PEN International and he founded Group of 100, an association of artists and scientists devoted to environmental protection. Best known in the United States for his poetry, this project will translate a novel that, through a series of interlinked vignettes, explores the dark corners of Mexican culture from colonialism to myth to fantasy. This novel has not yet appeared in English.