Janet Hendrickson translates from Spanish and Portuguese. Her experimental translation of Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language (New Directions, 2019), a seventeenth-century dictionary by Sebastián de Covarrubias, was longlisted for a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She also translated The Future Is Not Ours (ed. Read More Diego Trelles Paz, Open Letter, 2012), an anthology of new Latin American fiction. She holds a PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa.