KELSI VANADA is a 2024 NEA Translation Fellow. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. She writes poems and translates from Spanish and collaboratively from Swedish. She cultivates a readership for poetry in translation by writing reviews and teaches occasional short-term classes and workshops. Since 2018, Kelsi has worked as the Program Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) in Tucson, Arizona.
