Kathleen WeaverKathleen Weaver is a poet, translator, anthologist of women poets, and biographer. She is author of Peruvian Rebel, The World of Magda Portal, With a Selection of Her Poems (Penn State University Press, 2009). She is the co-editor of The Penguin Bookof Women Poets (Penguin Books, 1978), a landmark anthology of women poets from around the world, where she included the first English translations of Magda Portal's poems. She has translated many Cuban poets, including Fayad Jamís, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Eliseo Diego, Samuel Feijóo, as well as Nancy Morejón's, Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing, Selected Poetry (Black Scholar Press, 1985). She also translated Fire From the Mountain: The Making of a Sandinista, by Omar Cabezas (Crown Publishing Group, 1985) and Nicaraguan Sketches by Julio Cortázar (W. W. Norton, 1989). A volume of her poetry, Too Much Happens, was published by The Post-Apollo Press in 2015. She studied at the University of Edinburgh and at UC Berkeley as a Ford Fellow in Comparative Literature. She lives in Berkeley, California with her husband, Bob Baldock. Read More Read Less