Melisa Machado was born in Durazno, Uruguay, in 1966. She lives in Montevideo. She is a poet, journalist, writer, art analyst and therapist. Her books Ritual de las Primicias (1994), El lodo de la Estirpe (2005), Adarga (2000), Jamba de Flores Negras (2006) and Marjal o Animal (2008) were collected in Rituales (2011). El Canto Rojo was first published by the Sediento Ediciones (Mexico) in 2013. Her poems have been included in several anthologies, including El Amplio Jardin (2005), Nada es igual despues de la poesia: Cincuenta poetas uruguayos del medio siglo, 1955-2005 (2005) and The World Record, (2012). Her work has previously been translated into English, Italian and Swedish. Seth Michelson is an award-winning poet, translator, and professor. He has published thirteen books of poetry and poetry in translation. His books of original poetry include Swimming Through Fire (2017) and Eyes Like Broken Windows (2012). Recent translations include The Red Song (2017, Melisa Machado, Uruguay) and Poems from the Disaster (2016, Zulema Moret, Argentina). He also edited and translated the anthology Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention (2017), after leading poetry workshops for two years in the most restrictive maximum-security detention center in the U.S. for undocumented, unaccompanied youth. He teaches the poetry of the Americas at Washington and Lee University.