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Valerie Mejer-Caso was born in Mexico City yet came from a family of European inmigrants, this is relevant in her work about the family saga treated as a series of shipwrecks (This Blue Novel). Mejer Caso has been the recipient of the International Poetry Award “Gerardo Diego” (Spain) and was also the recipient of three grants given by The National Council for Culture and the Arts in Mexico. She’s the author of Cuaderno de Edimburgo and de la ola el atajo (Amargord, Colección Trasatlántica, España); Geografías de Niebla (Tucán de Virginia, 2007, México); Esta Novela Azul (Tucán de Virginia 2005, México); Ante el ojo del cíclope (Tierra Adentro, 2000, México). The collection of poems Rain of the Future was published by Action Books in 2014 and was edited by C.D Wright. In 2017, her book This Blue Novel, translated by Michelle Gil-Montero, won the Pen/Heim award for best translated poetry book. Mejer Caso has also collaborated with several photographers, among them Barry Shapiro, Russel Monk, and with D.S Borris (and the poet Forrest Gander). Mejer Caso has also translated, in collaboration with other poets, complete collections of poetry, including works from Charles Wright, C.D Wright, Ruth Fainlight, Forrest Gander & Pascale Petit. From December 2016 to March 2017, she was (in collaboration with Shapiro) part of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India where, room by room, a book named Untamable Light unfolded. Her poetry has been translated into English, Slovenian, and Korean.
Michelle Gil-Montero has translated Poetry After the Invention of América: Don’t Light the Flower by Andrés Ajens (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), Dark Museum (Action Books, 2015), Mouth of Hell (Action Books 2013), The Tango Lyrics (Quattro Books, 2012), and The Annunication (Action Books, 2019) by María Negroni, and This Blue Novel by Valerie Mejer-Caso (Action Books, 2015). Gil-Montero is also the author of Attached Houses (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013). She lives in Pittsburgh and is Associate Professor of English at Saint Vincent College.
Barry Shapiro grew up among the 1950s' mid-century artistic influences. His photography is best described as humanistic photojournalism. Among his outstanding collections created through teaching photography workshops around the world are works from the locales of Galindo MX, Seychelles/Indian Ocean, Costa Rica, South Africa, and Bhutan. His work is in private collections and museums, and he was part of the 2016 Kochi Biennale exhibition “Untamable Light.” In the Spring 2019 edition of the NYU journal Esferas he and poet Valerie Mejer-Caso collaborated on a bi-lingual poem/photo essay about environmental devastation titled “The House that Is, the House that Isn’t.” Visit his website [here]
Michelle Gil-Montero has translated Poetry After the Invention of América: Don’t Light the Flower by Andrés Ajens (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011), Dark Museum (Action Books, 2015), Mouth of Hell (Action Books 2013), The Tango Lyrics (Quattro Books, 2012), and The Annunication (Action Books, 2019) by María Negroni, and This Blue Novel by Valerie Mejer-Caso (Action Books, 2015). Gil-Montero is also the author of Attached Houses (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013). She lives in Pittsburgh and is Associate Professor of English at Saint Vincent College.
Barry Shapiro grew up among the 1950s' mid-century artistic influences. His photography is best described as humanistic photojournalism. Among his outstanding collections created through teaching photography workshops around the world are works from the locales of Galindo MX, Seychelles/Indian Ocean, Costa Rica, South Africa, and Bhutan. His work is in private collections and museums, and he was part of the 2016 Kochi Biennale exhibition “Untamable Light.” In the Spring 2019 edition of the NYU journal Esferas he and poet Valerie Mejer-Caso collaborated on a bi-lingual poem/photo essay about environmental devastation titled “The House that Is, the House that Isn’t.” Visit his website [here]