Voyage to the Center

Gemma Gorga (born in Barcelona in 1968) has published seven collections of poetry in Catalan. Her most recent collections are Mur (Barcelona: Meteora, 2015), which won the Premi de la Critica de Poesia Catalana, and Viatge al centre (Godall Edicions, 2020). Her other recent books include her essay on India, Indi Visible (Barcelona, 2018) and her book about reading and bookstores, Hi ha un país on la boira (Tushita Edicions, 2021), as well as translations from English to Catalan of the Indian poets Dilip Chitre, Kamala Das, and Arun Kolatkar, and a co-translation of selected poems by Edward Hirsch into Catalan. She is Professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona.

Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Imperfect Present (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022) and Manual for Living (Pittsburgh, 2016). Her fourth book Burn and Dodge (Pittsburgh, 2008) won the 2007 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is also the author of a prose memoir Hitchcock Blonde (Terra Nova Press, 2020) and two previous books of translation from Catalan: Gemma Gorga’s Book of Minutes (Field Translation Series/Oberlin College Press, 2019), which received grants from PEN and Institut Ramon Llull, and Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga (Saturnalia Books, 2021), winner of Saturnalia Books inaugural Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize, a Finalist for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, AWP Donald Hall Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Witter Bynner Fellowship, Dolin is Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press and teaches poetry workshops in New York City.