Magdalena Arias Vásquez is a writer and translator. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in AGNI and Poetry Northwest, among others. She was a 2024 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, and an AWP Season 20 Poetry Mentee. A Williams College graduate, she studied English and French Literature and writes in both Spanish and English. Born and raised in Panama City, Panama, she currently lives in New York.