Amy Olen

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Amy Olen is associate professor of translation and interpreting studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the translator of the bilingual edition Luisa Capetillo: escalando la tribuna (Editora Educación Emergente, 2022) and Marayrasu: Stories (Curbstone Books, Northwestern University Press, 2026), a collection of short stories by Peruvian author Edgardo Rivera Martínez.

Isadora Cónsac
By Edgardo Rivera Martínez

December 4, 2025 Edgardo Rivera Martínez
Photo by marco / Adobe Stock The publication this week of Marayrasu: Stories, by Peruvian author Edgardo Rivera Martínez, translated by Amy Olen, marks the first English-language…
Two Poems from Spain
By Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga

August 1, 2023 Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga
Photo by h heyerlein / Unsplash Field at Night On a night without you I descend into hell streetlamps become enemies Solitary I walk the salt mines my footprints are salt measuring fate salt like…
Three Poems from Peru
By Sandro Chiri

December 10, 2020 Sandro Chiri
Photo by Patrick Robert Doyle / Unsplash Four Scars for a Nameless Town 1 I come from a town with no name, no smiles of children under the trees. My town…
Two Poems from Peru
By Rossella Di Paolo
Autumn 2020
Rossella Di Paolo
Photo: Giancarlo Revolledo / Unsplash Limbo One day I placed a rock on top of your name and I said to myself: I’ll go singing all the way home. And I sang like a wild wom…