Schimel, Lawrence: - Lawrence Schimel writes in both Spanish and English and has published many books in both languages. He has won the Lambda Literary Award (twice), a Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and a White Raven Award from the International Youth Library, among other honors and awards. As a literary translator, Schimel's translation of La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono (The Feminist Press), is the first novel by a woman writer from Equatorial Guinea to be published in English. La Bastarda was declared an Honor Title from the Global Literature in Libraries Best Translated YA Award, a Notable 2018 Translation from World Literature Today, chosen by the American Library Association for both the Over the Rainbow List and the Rainbow Book List, and is currently a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. He has translated over 30 poetry collections, including the forthcoming winner of the Octavio Paz Prize from the National Poetry Series, I Offer My Heart as a Target by Johanny Vazquez Paz (Akashic Books, 2019), as well as Destruction of the Lover by Luis Panini (Pleiades Press, 2019); Bomarzo by Elsa Cross (Shearsman, 2019), and Impure Acts by Ángelo Néstore (Indolent Books, 2019). His poetry translations appear regularly in Words Without Borders, Latin American Literature Today, Modern Poetry in Translation (UK), Pleiades, Río Grande Review, PN Review (UK), Tupelo Quarterly, Raspa, and other journals.