ABOUT
Curtis Bauer is the author of three poetry collections, most recently American Selfie (Barrow Street Press, 2019), available in Spanish translation as Selfi Americano (Vaso Roto Ediciones, 2022). He is also a translator of poetry and prose from the Spanish: his publications include the novel The Home Reading Service, by Fabio Morábito (Other Press, 2021), the memoir Land of Women, by María Sánchez (Trinity University Press, 2022) and the full-length poetry collection This Could Take Some Time by Clara Muschietti (eulalia books, 2022). His other translations include Image of Absence, by Jeannette L. Clariond (The Word Works Press, 2018), which won the International Latino Book Award for “Best Nonfiction Book Translation from Spanish to English,” From Behind What Landscape, by Luis Muñoz (Vaso Roto Ediciones, 2015) and Eros Is More, by Juan Antonio González Iglesias (Alice James Books, 2014).
Curtis has given readings, lectures and taught workshops in Spanish and English across the US and in Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela and Spain. Most recently he has taught writing workshops in Spanish for Lines & Spaces a literary partnership with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and in English for 24 Pearl Street, through the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is the publisher and editor of Q Avenue Press Chapbooks and the Translations Editor for The Common. He divides his time between Spain and Texas.