Katherine M. Hedeen

Katherine M. Hedeen is a prize-winning translator of Latin American poetry. She has translated more than thirty books by some of the most respected voices from the region into English. 

Heeden has been a finalist for both the Best Translated Book Award and the National Translation Award. She is a recipient of the University of Wisconsin Press’s inaugural Poetry in Translation Prize, two National Endowment for the Arts Translation Project Fellowships, and a PEN Translates Award in the United Kingdom. 

Heeden is an editor of the transnational and translational press Action Books. She resides in Ohio, where she is a professor of Spanish at Kenyon College, and in Havana, Cuba.