Mauricio Espinoza

Mauricio Espinoza (León Cortés, Costa Rica, 1975) is a professor, poet and translator. He is a teacher of Spanish and Latin American literature at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. He has published the collections of poems Nothing more than silence (San José, Costa Rica, 2000); Breathing of stones (San José, Costa Rica, 2016), winner of the 2015 Poetry Prize from the Editorial de la University of Costa Rica; and Felt Fish (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2023). His poetry too appears in The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States (Tía Chucha Press, 2017); En el corazón de todo: Bilingual Anthology of Ohio Spanish-Speaking Poets / In the Heart of It All: Bilingual Anthology of Ohio Spanish-Language Poets.(Ultramarina, 2024), of which he is also co-editor; and in magazines like barzakh and Rio Grande Review. He is co-translator of the work of the Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio, whose Publications include the bilingual anthology Territory of Dawn: The Selected Poems of Eunice Hate (Bitter Oleander Press, 2016) and The Fire’s Journey (Tavern Books, 2013-19); and of collections of poems by the Costa Rican poet Randall Roque and the Salvadoran poet Miroslava Rosales.