[NOTE: I am applying as an individual reader to share my translations of Gilberto Owen, which I would be very excited and honored to do, especially since this year's theme is Mexican poetry. I previously applied to be part of a reading with New Mundo Press and diSONARE.]

Jack Chelgren is a writer from Seattle, currently at work on a translation of Mexican avant-garde poet Gilberto Owen's book Línea (1930). Excerpts from Jack's translations of Owen have recently been published in Asymptote and New Mundo Press’s online magazine, La Lancha.

A PhD candidate in English at the University of Chicago, Jack is writing a dissertation about the influence of cinema on literary modernism in the Americas. Jack's own poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in the zine Marpargo (edited by Léon Pradeau), Hot Pink Mag, Bedfellows, Tyger Quarterly, Pider, and SPAM; his critical writing has appeared in La Mariposa Mundial, Chicago Review, Tripwire, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Poetry Northwest. Jack is the nonfiction editor of Chicago Review.