Ellen Jones is a researcher, editor, and translator from Spanish. She writes about multilingualism and contemporary Latin American literature, including for publications like the Times Literary Supplement and The Irish Times. Her translation of Rodrigo Fuentes’s Trout, Belly Up is published by Charco Press. She has been criticism editor at Asymptote since 2014.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
In the Borderlands Between Reality and Fantasy: On Chloe Aridjis’s “Sea Monsters”
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Little Book with Big Ambitions: Rita Indiana’s “Tentacle”
Rita Indiana's "Tentacle" takes on environmental disaster, queer politics, race relations, and the legacy of empire in a brief 160 pages....
Revolt and Revulsion in Margarita García Robayo’s “Fish Soup”
Margarita García Robayo’s prose is concise and startling, her voice versatile and capable of packing a serious punch....
