Jeannine M. Pitas is a writer, teacher, and Spanish-English literary translator. Her first full-length poetry book, Things Seen and Unseen, was published by Mosaic Press in 2019, and her most recent translation, We do not live in vain by Uruguayan poet Selva Casal, is forthcoming this year from Veliz Books. She lives in Iowa and teaches at the University of Dubuque.