Alicia Maria Meier is a writer and translator based in Brooklyn. She earned her MFA. in nonfiction writing and literary translation from Columbia University in 2015, and currently manages Global Programs for Columbia’s School of the Arts—among them the Writing Program’s literary translation exchange program, Word for Word. She is the recipient of a 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for her translation from the Catalan of Marta Carnicero’s The Sky According to Google.