I translate art criticism, literature, and academic work, among other types of texts. I also edit fiction and nonfiction. 

With a wide range of experience—living in Mexico for two decades, being an artist, holding multiple higher education degrees, and translating for eighteen years—I am well-equipped to tackle any translation project in the arts and humanities. 

I hold a B.S. in studio art and three master's degrees in European studies, comparative literature, and religious studies, the last two recently completed. I am currently finishing a certificate in literary translation. 

While I was in graduate school (roughly 2014-2022), I was always translating, but a lot of the work I did focused on the requirements for my degrees.

Areas of expertise

arts and humanities, literature, religion, visual art, Mexican culture, early modern European culture, and the Spanish colonial world

Selection of translated literature

“The Seamstresses,” Elena Poniatowska, Toad Press, 2022

“lucy says,” paula ilabaca núñez, World Literature Today, June 26, 2018, online. (award-winning poetry translation)
 
“Change of Aim,” Víctor V. Quintas, Noir Nation: International Crime Fiction, No. 2.,  2012, online.
 
The Talking Disease, Jair Cortés, Gláphyra, Tlaxcala, 2008.

Selection of translated coffee-table art books

El imperio de la mirada, Rolando Rojas, Fundación Black Coffee Gallery, 2019.
 
Tesoro mexicano: Views of Nature Between the Old and New World, Conaculta, 2015.
 
Escombro, Arturo Hernández Alcázar, RM/Ediciones el Mojado, Paris, 2015.
 
Íntimos océanos: Jesús Urbieta, Jorge Pech, ed., Gobierno del Estado de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, 2009.
 
Picasso to Plensa: A Century of Art from Spain, Fernando Gálvez de Aguinaga, et. al., Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, 2005.

Recent professional workshops

Bread Loaf Translators' Workshop, Translation Manuscript Workshop, Middlebury, Vermont, June 2022