Eileen O’Connor’s translations from the Spanish include the poetry collection Pez/Fish by Mariela Dreyfus, the novel I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosín, and the poetry collection Harbors of Light by Marjorie Agosín, listed among the “75 Notable Translations of 2016” by World Literature Today.
Her translations of Blanca Varela’s Concierto Animal appear in Asymmetries: Anthology of Peruvian Poetry (edited by G. Huapaya and Paul Guillén), and additional translations of poetry by Varela, Dreyfus, and other Latin American poets appear in Mandorla: New Writing from Latin America; Revista Temporales; WashingtonSquare Review; Still Magazine; New Poetry in Translation; World Poetry Review; Mercurius; and La Maja Desnuda, among other publications. O’Connor has taught Spanish, translation, and writing at Harvard University, Wellesley College, and Lesley University, and is currently a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholar in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at University College Cork. She has translated interviews for “The City and the Writer” since 2015.