Isabel Zapata is a Mexico City-born writer and editor. She is the author of the poetry books
Ventanas adentro (Ediciones Urdimbre, 2002),
Las noches son así (Broken English, 2018), and
Una ballena es un país (Almadía, 2019), as well as the bilingual essay collection
Alberca vacía / Empty Pool (Argonáutica, 2019, trans. Robin Myers). Recent work has appeared in English translation in
World Literature Today, Waxwing, The Common, the
Rio Grande Review, and is forthcoming in
Words Without Borders.
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Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers