Lizbeth Carrillo Can (Peto, Yucatán) is a Spanish <> Yucatec Maya translator and native Yucatec Maya speaker. She has translated many books, including the Yucatec Maya sections of Carlos Martínez Bolio’s Sea, Sand, and Music (Barker & Jules, 2020) into Spanish.
This project grew from a conversation with Kim Stafford during the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters conference, “Words = A Pathway to Peace.” We decided to send a poem for peace around t…