About Our Guest Editors for “Translation & Transition”
Guest Editor for Poetry: Jeremy Paden
Jeremy Paden is a professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. He writes poetry in English and Spanish and translates poetry into and out of both languages. He is the author of several collections of poems and has translated poets from across Latin America and Spain. His translation of Ada Limón’s The Hurting Kind into Spanish will appear in August of 2024 with Valparaíso Ediciones out of Granada, Spain.
Guest Editor for Poetry: Patty Seyburn
Patty Seyburn has previously published five collections of poems: Threshold Delivery (Finishing Line Press, 2019); Perfecta (What Books Press, Glass Table Collective, 2014); Hilarity, (New Issues Press, 2009), Mechanical Cluster (Ohio State University Press, 2002) and Diasporadic (Helicon Nine Editions, 1998). She earned a BS and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern University, an MFA in Poetry from University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and Literature from the University of Houston. She is a professor at California State University, Long Beach.
Guest Editor for Fiction: Taylor Johnston-Levy
Taylor Johnston-Levy is a fiction writer and academic based in Tel Aviv. She holds a postdoctoral fellowship in foreign literatures at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and teaches US literature and creative writing at Bar-Ilan University. Her fiction and literary critical work appear in Ninth Letter, Twentieth-Century Literature, Critique, Arizona Quarterly, and The Raymond Carver Review. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature and MA in Creative Writing from UC Berkeley.