Carina del Valle Schorske is a writer and translator based in New York City. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Longreads, Bookforum, The Believer, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among many other venues. She won Gulf Coast’s 2016 Prize for her translations of the poet Marigloria Palma, and collaborated with Erica Mena, Ricardo Maldonado, and Raquel Salas Rivera on the bilingual anthology project Puerto Rico en mi corazón. Her first essay collection, The Other Island, is forthcoming from Riverhead in 2020. She was recently awarded a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.