Author & Translator Bios
Mirabai, or Mira, is a major premodern poetic figure in India, and is considered by many Hindus to be a saint. She lived in 15-16th c. North India, and her poems express intense, sometimes eroticized devotion to the god Krishna. Originally sung and shared orally, these poems were eventually gathered into anthologies, and they continue to be popular in India today, where Mira has been the subject of films, plays, books, musical albums, and visual art.
Chloe Martinez is a poet, a translator, and a scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of the collection Ten Thousand Selves and the chapbook Corner Shrine. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, POETRY, Prairie Schooner, Agni and elsewhere, and her translations have been awarded the Anne Frydman Prize and the Robert Fitzgerald Prize. She works at Claremont McKenna College.