Rebecca Hanssens-Reed is a translator and writer whose work can be found in the New England Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Washington Square Review, Asymptote, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was also a Provost’s Postgraduate Visiting Writer. Her translation of the novel Gelsomina Inside the White Madhouses by Margarita Mateo Palmer is forthcoming from Cubanabooks Press.