deFreese, Allison: Nurdles and Other Poems

Finishing Line Press, paperback

Publication Date: November 11, 2022

Publisher Marketing: Allison A. deFreese grew up on a pig farm in Kansas. She holds three cats, one GED® certificate, a liberal arts degree from Ottawa University, and three advanced degrees starting with "M." Her work also includes leading literary translation workshops for the Oregon Society of Translators and Interpreters, teaching in the University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley's virtual Master of Arts in Spanish Translation and Interpreting program, and both designing and teaching adult literacy and literature courses for Spanish speakers. Previously the recipient of a James A. Michener Writing Fellowship (thank you UT@A), an AWP Intro Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, deFreese has lived in Mexico, Bolivia, and Japan. Her recent literary translations include María Negroni's Elegy for Joseph Cornell (Dalkey Archive Press, 2020); José Moreno Hernández's Soaring to New Heights: The Memoir of a Child Migrant Farmworker Who Became a NASA Astronaut (Renuevo Press, 2020); Karla Marrufo's Mayo (forthcoming), and Verónica González Arredondo's I Am Not That Body (Pub House Books Montreal, 2020).