Top-notch Spanish <> English translation and editing across disciplines and genres.

For over a decade I have translated poetry, fiction, Op-Eds, memoirs, academic papers, art catalogs, and speeches by some of Spain and Latin America’s most important writers and public figures, including Carlos Manuel Alvarez, Tania Bruguera, Martín Caparrós, Jorge Carrión, Enrique Krauze, Rosa Montero, José María Merino, Juana Rosa Pita, Juan Villoro, Irene Vallejo, and Sergio Bitar. From 2019 to 2021 I translated 40+ articles for The New York Times Opinion Section, and was the lead Spanish>English translator for OnCuba magazine. I am currently most interested in translating contemporary fiction and non-fiction literary works.

Spanish English translator for the NYT Opinion Section, including trilingual feature on the Amazon in Oct 2020. 40+ Op-Eds translated from 2019–2021 by contributors from Spain and Latin America.
The Miracle Unfolds, bilingual poetry collection by Juana Rosa Pita (b. 1939, Havana). Selection, translation, and introduction (Song Bridge Project, Oct. 2021). Reviews, features, etc.
Translation of excerpts from Manifiesto por la lectura, by Irene Vallejo (b. 1979, Spain), commissioned by the Instituto Cervantes at Harvard on the occasion of the Día del libro (Apr 23, 2021).
Prisoner of Pinochet: My Year in a Chilean Concentration Camp (University of Wisconsin Press Human Rights Series, 2017), a memoir by former Chilean minister Sergio Bitar. Translated by Erin Goodman, notes by Peter Winn. Original publisher: Pehuén Edi
Reflections on Memory and Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2016). Co-editor with Merilee S. Grindle. Contributors include Marguerite Feitlowitz, Marjorie Agosín, Sergio Bitar, Juan Mendez, Peter Winn, and Salomon Lerner Febres.
Memory, Resistance, and Justice (2020) and Fragmented Memories, Past and Present (2022). Co-editor with Juanjo Romero. Universitat de Barcelona. CASA Historical Memory Project. Preface and introduction by former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos and jo
Los Cubanos de Harvard / The Harvard Cubans. Full-length documentary (72 minutes, 2017) about the Cuban Teachers’ Expedition of 1900. Production liaison/translation/fact checking. US premiere Oct 2017 at Harvard. Cuba premiere Dec 2018 at Havana Int'
Casagrande is a Chilean art collective that has developed a series of publishing projects and art actions related to poetry and interventions into public spaces. PROYECTO H (2018): Translated essays by Raúl Zurita, Bruno Vidal, Ciro Martínez, and Mar
Interview (en español) with Javier Llaxacondor of the Festival Internacional de Poesía de Santiago.
O, Miami Poetry Festival Workshop: Translating Juana Rosa Pita's Sips of Light

Currently seeking a publisher for

  • Hard Earth (Original title: Tierra dura, unpublished). Short story collection by Jorge Olivera Castillo (Cuba), translated by Erin Goodman. “The Feast” appears in English translation in Latin American Literature Today, September 2024. See also: Translation of “Shots in the Dark” in Los Angeles Review, short story by Olivera Castillo (Cuba), October 2020; translations of poetry by Olivera Castillo in spoKe 5 Poetry Annual (2018).

  • Otra que no soy yo / Someone I’m Not [Working title]. Bilingual poetry collection by Eugenia Toledo-Keyser (Chile-US), translated by Erin Goodman. See: Translation of “Once Upon a Time” by Toledo-Keyser in Circumference (October 2023), and “The Objects” in Northwest Review (Summer 2021).

  • English translation of Una casa en los Catskills [Working title: A House in the Catskills] by Odette Casamayor-Cisneros (Cuba–US). Short story collection (Original publisher: Letras cubanas, 2015), translated by Erin Goodman. See: “Facebook Love Story” by Casamayor-Cisneros, and “On Translation and the Digital Connection: A Conversation between Odette Casamayor-Cisneros and Erin Goodman,” featured in Australian literary journal The Lifted Brow, March 2020. Translation of "Entre cubanos" ("Patriotic Sex") in New England Review Vol. 42 No. 1 (March 2021).

Literary Translations

Nuestra misión

Descubrir la poesía en el rumor:
el batir de las alas de un zunzún
dentro del huracán.

Our Quest

To discover poetry amidst the noise:
the flapping wings of a hummingbird
inside the hurricane.

—Juana Rosa Pita (b. 1939, Havana) from The Miracle Unfolds (Song Bridge Project, 2021)