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Ben Van Wyke Author & Editor

Kelly Washbourne teaches at Kent State University in Ohio, United States. He won a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship (2010) for his translation of Nobel Laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias’ Leyendas de Guatemala (Legends of Guatemala, Latin American Literary Review Press, 2011).

Ben Van Wyke was Assistant Professor of Spanish and Translation Studies at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis. He wrote on translation, metaphor, and postmodern philosophy, and translated from Spanish and Portuguese, primarily young Spanish authors of poetry and fiction. He passed away in September 2017.