Natasha Tiniacos is a poet, literary translator, and scholar from Maracaibo, Venezuela, living in the U.S. after being granted political asylum. She is the author of Historia privada de un etcétera (Libros del fuego), Mujer a fuego lento (Equinoccio) as well as the Spanish translator of Gabriel Dozal’s The Border Simulator. Her poetry and translations can be found in The Baffler and Fence.

She has received fellowships from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the U.S. Department of State Office of Cultural Affairs. She has worked as a poet in residence in Campo Air (Uruguay), the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, and Vermont Studio Center. She holds an MFA from New York University and is a Ph.D. candidate at The Graduate Center.