Lila Zemborain

is the author of eight poetry collections, compiled in Buenos Aires as Matrix Lux. Poesía reunida 1989-2019, three of which have been published in English: Mauve Sea-Orchids (Belladonna Books, 2007) translated by Rosa Alcalá and Mónica de la Torre; Guardians of the Secret (Noemi Press, 2009) translated by Rosa Alcalá; and Soft Matter (Quantum Prose, 2023) translated by Christopher Winks. The poetry collection Matrix Lux, translated by Lorenzo Bueno, is forthcoming this year by Belladonna Books. From 2004 to 2024, she curated the KJCC Poetry Series at NYU, where she co-founded the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish, and currently teaches. In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her three-book series Álbum, to be published between 2024 and 2025 by Beatriz Viterbo Editora in Argentina. It’s first volume El linaje escondido appeared in April 2024.