Susan Briante
Modern Languages 336
A translator, Susan Briante lived in Mexico City from 1992-1997 working for the magazines Artes de México and Mandorla. Her translations have appeared in the journals Bomb, Bombay Gin, Translation Review and Review: Latin American Literature and Arts (among many others) as well as in the anthologies Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry and Hotel Lautreamont: Contemporary Poetry of Uruguay.
She serves as the faculty liaison and educational facilitator for the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program. The program brings UA Creative Writing MFA students to the US-Mexico border to work with community-based environmental and social justice groups as well as to lead creative writing workshops with local high school students.