Magdalena Arias Vásquez is a bilingual writer and translator. Her English-language poems have been published in AGNI, Poetry Northwest, among others. Her Spanish-language poetry is forthcoming in the Antología V del Festival Internacional del Libro de Nueva York (FILNYC). She was a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, and has received recognition and support for her work from organizations such as Brooklyn Poets and AWP. 

Her translation work has been recognized by the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). As a Spanish to English and English to Spanish translator, she has translated poetry and other literary texts featured and forthcoming in Revista Anfibia in Argentina and Asymptote Journal. 

Born and raised in Panama City, Panama, she currently lives between the isthmus and New York.