Jeannine Marie Pitas hails from Buffalo, New York. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks and the Spanish-English translator of several poets and writers. Her most recent translation, An Introduction to Octavio Paz by renowned Mexican writer Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, was published by Mosaic Press in 2019. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto's Centre for Comparative Literature and currently teaches literature, writing and Spanish at the University of Dubuque.