Idea Vilariño (1920 - 2009) was an Uruguayan poet and is still an essential figure in Latin American poetry. Poemas de Amor/ Love Poems is her best known book, which is dedicated to the Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti.
Jesse Lee Kercheval is a poet, writer and translator whose translations include El puente invisible/ The Invisible Bridge: Selected Poems of Circe Maia. She is the Zona Gale Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.