CORAL BRACHO was born in Mexico City in 1951. She is the author of several poetry collections including the awardwinning El ser que va a morir (Being toward Death) and Ese espacio, ese jard?n (That Space, that Garden), and also children’s literature. Among others, her poems appear in Poetry International, The Nation, and American Poetry Review. CHENG YIYANG is a lecturer, translator, and linguist of the Spanish language at Peking University.