Beverly Pérez Rego, a Venezuelan poet and translator, is the author of five volumes of poetry: Artes del vidrio (1992), Libro de cetrería (1994), Providencia (1998), Grimorio (2002), and Escurana (2004); collected in 2006 as Poesía reunida. Her poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, and she has also translated works by Mark Strand, Louise Glück, Anne Waldman and Nathalie Handal. Pérez Rego received the Rafael Bolívar Coronado Biennial Literary Prize in Poetry and the Elías David Curiel Poetry Award. She was a 2010 Poetry Fellow at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, and Resident Poet at CityofAsylum-Pittsburgh. She currently lives in Iowa City.