Kristin Dykstra is a writer, literary translator, and scholar living in Hinesburg, VT. Dykstra has translated numerous books, including works by Cuban writers Reina María Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Flores, Marcelo Morales, Rito Ramón Aroche, Ángel Escobar, and Omar Pérez. Among her honors are the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literary Translation. Her writing has been published in the Chicago Review, Guernica, Hopkins Review, Lana Turner, Asymptote, Latin American Literature Today, Rumpus, Astra, and elsewhere. Dissonance is her first original poetry collection.