Mara NegroniMara Negroni (Rosario, Argentina) has published over 20 books including poetry, collected essays and novels. Islandia, Night Journey, Andanza (The Tango Lyrics), Mouth of Hell, and The Annunciation have appeaed in English, and her work has also been translated into Swedish, Portuguese, Italian, and French. Mara Negroni received a Guggenheim fellowship for poetry in 1994, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1998, the Fundacin Octavio Paz fellowship for poetry in 2001, and The New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in 2005. She also received a National Book Award for her collection of poems El viaje de la noche, a PEN Award for Islandia as best book of poetry in translation (New York 2001), and the Premio Internacional de Ensayo y Narrativa de Siglo XXI for her book Galera Fantstica. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1999 to 2014, and is now director of Argentina's first creative writing program, at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Read More Read Less