Michael Willis

(Translator) Five Poems by Balam Rodrigo
(Poetry / Winter 2021)

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Michael Willis (Fremont, California, USA, 1983) has lived and worked in Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Uruguay. He received a master’s degree from the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., where he developed his passion for the challenges of migration, particularly as they are represented in poetic form and in translation. At Georgetown, Willis translated Balam Rodrigo’s Central American Book of the Dead and Marabunta. Michael is a married father of three and is currently serving as a US military attaché in Montevideo.