Becka Mara McKay teaches translation and creative writing at Florida
Atlantic University. She has an MFA in creative writing from the
University of Washington and an MFA in literary translation from the
University of Iowa, where she also received a PhD in comparative
literature. Her first book of poems, A Meteorologist in the Promised
Land, was published by Shearsman Books in March 2010. Her
translation, from the Hebrew, of the novel Laundry by Suzane
Adam was published by AHB in 2008. She has
received awards and grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the
American Literary Translators Association, and a Witter Bynner Poetry
Translation Residency. She has published her work in American
Letters & Commentary, ACM, Third Coast, the Iowa Review,
Hotel Amerika, Rhino, Natural Bridge, Rattapallax, and elsewhere.
