Tess O’Dwyer won the Columbia University Translation Center Award for her rendition of Giannina Braschi’s Postmodern poetry epic Empire of Dreams (Yale University Press). She also translated Braschi’s Spanglish classic novel Yo-Yo Boing! (AmazonCrossing), as well as the Social Realist novel Martin Rivas by Alberto Blest Gana (Oxford University Press). She co-edited Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas and served on the board of PEN America and the Academy of American Poets.