Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of fourteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. Her translations include Invisible Bridge / El Puente Invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). She is the editor of América Invertida: An Anthology of Younger Uruguayan Poets, forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press. She is the Zona Gale Professor of English and Director of the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

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