Kristin Dykstra is a writer, literary translator, and scholar. Her translation of Amanda Berenguer’s collection The Lady of Elche is forthcoming from Veliz Books in 2023. Her poetry collection Dissonance: Its Ridgelines / Disonancia: Perfil de laderas, tr. Tina Escaja, is also forthcoming. Dykstra is principal translator of The Winter Garden Photograph by Reina María Rodríguez (Ugly Duckling Presse), winner of the 2020 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and finalist for the National Translation Award. With Kent Johnson she co-edited Materia Prima, a team-translated anthology featuring Berenguer (also from Ugly Duckling), a finalist for the 2020 Best Translated Book Award.