The translator can’t go where the writer hasn’t gone. But it feels good to bound eagerly toward a text’s limits.
Lily Meyer
Lily Meyer is a writer, critic, and translator. Her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird (2021) and Ice for Martians (2022). 
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