Selected Editorial Projects

 

Guest editor, "Out of Alamar: The Poetry of Juan Carlos Flores." Chicago Review 61.3-4 (2018).

 

Materia Prima, an anthology of poetry by Amanda Berenguer.  Co-edited by Kristin Dykstra and Kent Johnson. Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2019. Finalist for the 2020 Best Translated Book Award.

 

Mandorla:  New Writing from the Americas / Nueva escritura de las Américas 7-16

 

Guest editor, #7.  Co-editor with Roberto Tejada and Gabriel Bernal Granados, #8-16, produced by the Publications Unit in the Department of English at Illinois State University.  Mandorla is now archived at the Open Door Archive at Northwestern University.

First published in Mexico City in 1991, Mandorla emphasizes innovative writing in its original language--most commonly English or Spanish--and high-quality translations of existing material. Visual art and short critical articles complement this work.

 

The name of the magazine--mandorla, describing a space created by two intersecting circles--alludes to the notion of exchange and imaginative dialogue that is necessary now among the Americas.