Kristin Dykstra is a writer, literary translator, and scholar. Her translation of The Lady of Elche, by Amanda Berenguer, was published by Veliz Books in 2023. Dykstra is the principal translator of The Winter Garden Photograph by Reina María Rodríguez, winner of the 2020 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and a finalist for the National Translation Award. Her own recent poems appear in Lana Turner, Almost Island, Seedings, Clade Song, and elsewhere. Find her on Instagram @kdykstra202x.