María Negroni is the author of numerous books of poetry, essay collections, and novels. A Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and winner of the Siglo XXI International Essay Prize, her work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Swedish and Portuguese. Islandia was awarded the 2002 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1999 to 2014, and is now the director of Argentina’s first creative writing program at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. After living in Bronxville, New York for two decades, Negroni now lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.