Alex Cussen
Alex Cussen (Berkeley, California, 1976) has previously translated the Chilean writer Marcelo Rioseco for the annual edition of the Columbia Journal. For the last four years, Mr. Cussen was in charge of Latin American Spanish subtitles and translation at Paramount Pictures. He has published articles in the Toronto Star and Cult, a Brazilian literary magazine.
Mr. Alex Cussen received an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University in 2006. While at Columbia he studied translation with Richard Howard, and worked closely with novelist Mary Gordon. Mr. Cussen also received his B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He now lives in Los Angeles.
Antonio Cussen
Antonio Cussen (Santiago, Chile, 1952) is the author of Bello and Bolívar: Poetry and Politics in the Spanish American Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 1992), a book translated into Spanish by the Fondo de Cultura Económica. He has published articles on topics ranging from Charles Baudelaire and W.B. Yeats to Rubén Darío and new Chilean poetry. In 2001 he published a book of poems, Mecenas (Santiago: Editorial Universitaria).
Mr. Cussen received a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University. He then did postgraduate work at UC Berkeley, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and an M.A. in Economics. He taught Latin American literature at UC Berkeley and Haverford College. He now lives in Chile.