Leslie Bary teaches Latin American literature at UL Lafayette. She writes on modern poetry, among other literary topics. She is a translator of Oswald de Andrade and other Brazilian modernist poets, of Cuban fiction writer Mirta Yáñez, and of two Peruvian poets, Pedro Granados and César Moro. Moro's The Equestrian Turtle and Other Poems is due April 15, 2025 from Cardboard House Press.