The Poetry Project

Silvina López Medin

In this black and white portrait, Silvina López Medin sits in a chair, resting her head in her hand, looking at the camera
© Martín Sonzogni

Silvina López Medin was born in Buenos Aires and lives in New York. Her books of poetry include Excursion (Oversound Chapbook Prize, 2020) and That Salt on the Tongue to Say Mangrove, translated by Jasmine V. Bailey (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2021). Her hybrid book Poem That Never Ends (2021) was a winner of the Essay Press/University of Washington Bothell Contest. She co-translated Anne Carson’s Eros the Bittersweet into Spanish. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn Rail, Harriet Books/Poetry Foundation, and MoMA/post, among others. She is an editor at Ugly Duckling Presse.

https://www.silvinalopezmedin.com/