Heather Cleary

Heather Cleary is an award-winning translator of poetry and prose, based in Mexico City

Heather Cleary’s writing has appeared in Two Lines, Lit Hub, and Poets & Writers, among other publications. Her book, The Translator’s Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction, shows how narratives of translation can upend established notions of intellectual property and propriety. She co-edited McSweeney’s 65: Plundered with Valeria Luiselli and Tsunami with Gabriela Jauregui, and is currently writing a novel about translation and betrayal. -- The Book Prize