Jo Anne Engelbert

Jo Anne Engelbert (1933) is Professor Emerita of Latin American Literature at Montclair State University where she established the Spanish Program in Translation and Interpretation. She has translated short stories, poems and essays by forty Latin American writers, including Isabel Allende, Luis Rafael Sánchez, and Ariel Dorfman Her work Return of the River by Honduran poet Roberto Sosa won the National Translation Award in 2003 from the American Literary Translators Association. In addition to articles on translation pedagogy, she has published Macedonio Fernández and the Latin American New Novel (New York University Press, 1978) and Macedonio: Selected Writings in Translation (Latitude Press, Texas, 1984). She has taught literature and translation at universities in Puerto Rico and Nicaragua. Since retirement she lives in St. Augustine, Florida and has taught poetic translation at the University of Florida at Gainesville.