Sobrevivir y otros complejos: Narrative Poems in Englillano es un libro semi-bilingüe. Algunos poemas están escritos en Spanglish and the author has translated some poems into inglés o castellano. Otros se han quedado en su idioma original.

Mariana Romo-Carmona is the author of Living At Night, Conversaciones, Speaking Like An Immigrant, and co-editor and translator of a number of anthologies. She was born in Chile, in 1952 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1966. En 1984, obtuvo ciudadanía neoyorquina.

She was on the faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Goddard College for 12 years, and teaches literature at the JSM Institute for Labor Studies/CUNY since 2001. Publica ficción y crítica en http://marianaromocarmona.wordpress.com and http://marianaromo-carmona.blogspot.com

Hello, FastPencilers-- I'm a semi-retired writer/professor (who isn't these days?); currently teaching Comparative Lit at JSM Institute for Labor Studies/CUNY. I am originally from Santiago, Chile, and I live in New York City.

My blog about teaching and literature is
http://marianaromo-carmona.blogspot.com

In December 2010 I published Speaking Like An Immigrant, and 3 other books in 2011-- Sobrevivir y otros complejos, my English translation of La muchacha de ojos tristes and the memoir collection by Catalan writer, Mercedes Salvador-- Viviendo campo a través, translated into English by myself and Ken Green.

My next projects at Fast Pencil are both novels: Residence on Earth and Lo que queda en la memoria.

Thanks for looking,
Mariana