Four Poems
by Tania Ganitsky
Translated from Spanish by Hannah Kauders
Over
write
Firebird
Sobre
Escribo
Pájaro de fuego
Tania Ganitsky is a poet, translator, essayist and editor from Bogotá, Colombia. The author of four poetry collections, she was awarded Colombia’s National Poetry Prize (Obra Inédita) in 2018 for Dos cuerpos menos (Two Bodies Fewer). Her book Desastre lento (Slow Disaster) was selected as a finalist for the National Poetry Prize in 2019. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick (England) and co-editor of the literary magazine La Trenza. Her most recent collection, La suspensión de los objetos flotantes (The Suspension of Floating Objects), was released in 2020.
Hannah Kauders is a writer-translator based in Brooklyn. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she has taught undergraduate writing. Her work has been featured by Lit Hub, Fiction International, Words Without Borders, PEN America, and Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation, and she is the translator of Iván Monalisa Ojeda’s Las Biuty Queens. She was a finalist for the 2020 Iowa Review Award in fiction.
