Jeannine M. Pitas is a teacher, writer, and Spanish-English translator. Her first book of poetry, Things Seen and Unseen, was published by Mosaic Press in 2019. Her most recently published translations are of Uruguayan poet Marosa di Giorgio’s Carnation and Tenebrae Candle (Cardboard House Press 2020) and Selva Casal’s We Do Not Live in Vain (Veliz Books 2020). Her translation of Uruguayan poet Silvia Guerra’s Un mar en madrugada (A Sea at Dawn), co-translated with Jesse Lee Kercheval, is forthcoming from Eulalia Books. She lives in Pittsburgh and will join the English faculty at St Vincent College in Fall 2022.