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Dora Prieto is a Mexican-Canadian poet and translator based in the Bay Area as a 2025–27 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming with House of Anansi in April 2027 and her book of co-translated poems JAWS by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza is forthcoming with Cardboard House Press in April 2026. She is a member of El Mashup Collective, and her work has appeared in Acentos Review, Best New Poets 2025, Catapult, Capilano Review, Maisonneuve, and more. She won the 2025 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers in poetry, was longlisted for the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize, and shortlisted for the 2023 Bronwen Wallace Award. She's currently writing about translation as a site of friction and eros.
