Magdalena Arias Vásquez is a bilingual writer and translator. Her English-language poems have been published in AGNI, Poetry Northwest, among others. She was a 2024 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, and a Season 20 AWP Poetry Mentee. She is a graduate of Under the Volcano Spanish Poetry Workshop in Tepoztlán, Mexico, and of Williams College, where she earned a BA in English and French Literature with Honors. Born and raised in Panama City, Panama, she currently lives between the isthmus and New York.