Emma Ferguson is a poet, translator and educator from Seattle. She has a degree in Latin American Studies from Bard College and in Hispanic Literature from NYU in Madrid. She has been accepted to Breadloaf Translators’ Conference for 2020 (now 2021) and she is translating the poetry collection Dwelling (2015) by Esther Ramón. She has recent poems at River Heron Review and The Bookends Review; her translations appear at the Los Angeles Review and are forthcoming from The Columbia Journal. She teaches at Eastside Preparatory School and lives in Seattle.

TRANSLATION

You Went Out to Burn

By ESTHER RAMóN

Translated from Spanish by Emma Ferguson