Two hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy tourists, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Victoria, home from Mexico City and ready to understand herself and the place she came from.
Two hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy tourists, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Victoria, home from Mexico City and ready to understand herself and the place she came from.
Cristina Bendek is a Caribbean author. She was born on the island of San Andrés (Colombia) in October 1987. In 2018 her first novel, Salt Crystals, won the Elisa Mújica National Novel Prize (Colombia). The novel has been translated into Portuguese (Moinhos, 2021), and Danish (Aurora Boreal, 2020), and now appears in English translation for the first time with Charco Press, which is also publishing the novel in Spanish for the North American readership. Cristina is also a journalist and spends her time researching Caribbean literature and writing fiction. Robin Myers is a New York-born, Mexico City-based poet and translator. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming from the_Kenyon Review_, the_Harvard Review_, Two Lines, The Offing, Waxwing, Beloit Poetry Journal , Asymptote, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tupelo Quarterly, and Inventory . In 2009, she was named a fellow of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA); in 2014, she was awarded a residency at the Banff Literary Translation Centre (BILTC); and in 2017, and she was selected to participate in the feminist translation colloquium A-Fest. Recent book-length translations include Lyric Poetry Is Dead by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Cardboard House Press), Animals at the End of the World by Gloria Susana Esquivel (University of Texas Press), an_d Cars on Fire_ by Mónica Ramón Ríos (Open Letter Books).
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