Juana Adcock

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Juana Adcock (Mexico 1982) is a poet and translator. Her texts have been included in publications like Magma Poetry, Shearsman, Gutter, the Glasgow Review of Books, Asymptote and Words Without Borders. Her first collection of poems, Wanting (Manca, Tierra Adentro, 2014; Argonáutica 2019), explores the anatomy of violence in Mexico and was named as one of the best poetry books published in the country in 2014. In 2016 she was nominated as one of the ‘Ten New Voices of Europe’ by the Literature Across Frontiers organisation. She has participated in several international festivals, and her work has been translated into more than ten languages. She lives in Glasgow, where she also plays music with the groups Las Mitras and The Raptors.