Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and Spanish-language translator from Chicago. His books include The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (2024), Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 (2021), Lake Michigan (2018), and The Performance of Becoming Human (2016). His most recent translations are Cecilia Vicuña’s The Deer Book (2024); and Paula Ilabaca Nuñez’s The Loose Pearl (2022).