Eléna Rivera is the recipient of a 2010 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, and the author of Mistakes, Accidents, and a Want of Liberty (Barque Press) and In Respect of Distance (Beard of Bees). Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Secrets of the Breath is just out from Burning Deck Press. She was awarded the 2007 Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute.