Juana Goergen Author

Juana Iris Goergen (Puerto Rico). Poet and Emerita Professor at DePaul University, Chicago. Visiting Professor at InterAmerican University, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. She has published La sal de las brujas (finalist of Letras de Oro Awards, Betania 1997,) La piela medias (2003,) Las Ilusas/Dreamers (in Desarraigos, contratiempo, 2008) and Mar en los huesos (Pandora/Lobo estepario, 2017.) Her poetry has been published in numerous anthologies, most recently, LatinUsa (Mexico, 2018). She was initiator and co-organizer for eleven years of the Chicago International Poetry Festival Poesía en abril. She has edited nine poetry anthologies, among them: Susurros para disipar las sombras, Rapsodia de los sentidos and Ciudad Cien en (Erato Poesía, Poesía en abril Chicago). She has been awarded contratiempo Poesía/Cultura Award, 2014 and the José Revueltas Poetry Award, 2018. At the moment she is working on two poetry collections La celda del iris/ Iris prison cell (under review) and Requiem al sueño americano: otro “Canto general”/ Requiem to the American Dream: another “Canto general.” In 2019 she was honoured by the International Poetry Festival Poesía en Abril Committee and at DePaul University with a poetry award that bears her name, the Juana Iris Goergen Poetry Award. Silvia R. Tandeciarz holds a B.A. and M.A. in English from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Literature from Duke University. She is Chancellor Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Vice Dean for Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies at William & Mary, where she has worked since 1999. A translator, poet, and scholar in the field of Latin American Cultural Studies, she has published widely on the intersections between memorial and human rights initiatives in postdictatorship Argentina. Her most recent book, Citizens of Memory: Affect, Representation, and Human Rights in Postdictatorship Argentina (2017,Bucknell University Press) appeared in Spanish in 2020. In addition to the poems of Puerto Rican poet Juana Goergen, her work in translation includes the book-length critical treatises Masculine/Feminine (Duke University Press, 2004) and The Insubordination of Signs (Duke University Press, 2004), both by the Chilean theorist Nelly Richard. She is the author of the poetry collection Exorcismos (Betania, 2000).