About the Author

Hugh Hazelton is a writer and translator who specializes in the work of Latin American writers living in Canada, as well as in comparisons between Canadian and Quebec literatures and those of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile and Uruguay). He has published four books of poetry and has translated eleven books from Spanish and French into English. His translation of V?tiver (Signature, 2005), a collection of poems by the Haitian-Canadian writer Jo?l Des Rosiers, won the Governor General's Award for French-English translation in 2006. He lives in Montreal.