Urayoán Noel is a Puerto Rican poet, critic, and translator who teaches at NYU and Stetson’s MFA of the Americas. His books include In Visible Movement: Nuyorican Poetry from the Sixties to Slam; Transversal: Poems, a New York Public Library Book of the Year; and, as editor and translator, Architecture of Dispersed Life: Selected Poetry by Pablo de Rokha, which was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award and a finalist for the National Translation Award in Poetry. Noel is also the translator of No Budu Please, by Winston González, and a translator for the Puerto Rican Literature Project.