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is a writer and literary translator based in New York City. ⋆˚꩜｡
Alejandra (or Ale) holds a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University and a Master of Studies in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation from the University of Oxford. They’re currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. They also work for The Paris Review. She attended the 2025 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference in Ripton, Vermont, and participated in Jennifer Grotz’s poetry in translation workshop. And she has taken a poetry workshop with Dorothea Lasky at Columbia.
Ale has conducted research in the classroom and beyond on medieval & early modern Iberian and French lyric poetry, translation theory, contemporary debates in the art world, and Puerto Rican literature and politics. They’re always looking for new interdisciplinary projects to take on and initiatives to support, particularly those that uplift Latinx and underrepresented voices. Other interests include
Please feel free to email me with any translation or editing queries, requests for book reviews, or anything else!
*I’m currently translating, among other things, a book of poems by the Puerto Rican poet Marina Arzola Porcell — feel free to reach out if you’re interested in hearing more about the project!