María José Giménez is co-director of the Apostles Review in Montreal and assistant translation editor for Anomaly (formerly known as Drunken Boat). A poet and translator, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Endowment. Born and raised in Venezuela, María José studied at universities in the United States and Canada, and currently lives in western Massachusetts.