Melanoma: The Politics of My Skin

Laura Cesarco Eglin

Laura Cesarco Eglin is a Uruguayan poet, translator, author of three collections of poetry: Llamar al agua por su nombre (Mouthfeel Press, 2010), Sastrería (Yaugurú, 2011), and Los brazos del saguaro (Yaugurú, 2015). A bilingual edition of her first book translated by Scott Spanbauer was published as Calling Water by Its Name (Mouthfeel Press, 2016). A selection of poems from Sastrería was translated collaboratively into English with Teresa Williams, and subsequently published as the chapbook Tailor Shop: Threads (Finishing Line Press, 2013), while her chapbook Occasions to Call Miracles Appropriate was published by the The Lune, 2015. Her poems and translations (from the Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, and Galician) have appeared or are forthcoming in a variety of journals, including Modern Poetry in Translation, MiPOesias, Eleven Eleven, Puerto del Sol, Copper Nickel, and more. Her poetry can also be found in the Uruguayan women’s section of Palabras Errantes, Plusamérica: Latin American Literature in Translation and in América invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets (University of New Mexico Press, 2016). She is the co-founding editor and publisher of Veliz Books.