Olivia Lott completed her B.A. in Literature in Spanish at Kenyon College in 2015 before receiving a 2015-2016 Fulbright Grant to Colombia. She is currently a second-year Ph.D. student in Hispanic Languages and Literatures and a Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellow.  She is also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies.  Her primary academic interests include modern and contemporary Spanish American poetry, the theory and practice of literary translation, and postcolonial and feminist studies.  Her translations of Spanish American poetry can be found in Latin American Literature Today, Mantis, Tupelo Quarterly, Sakura Review, Círculo de poesía, La Raíz Invertida, and Otro páramo, among others.

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