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Lizzie Davis

Biography

Lizzie Davis

Lizzie Davis is a translator and an editor at Coffee House Press. She has translated Elena Medel’s poetry collection, MY FIRST BIKINI, Juan Cárdenas’ ORNAMENTAL (a finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize), and work by Valeria Luiselli, Pilar Fraile Amador and Aura García-Junco. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review, Granta and other publications.

Lizzie Davis

Books by Lizzie Davis

written by Elena Medel, translated by Lizzie Davis and Thomas Bunstead - Fiction

Maria moved to Madrid in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, then a caregiver and later a cleaner, and somehow she was always taking care of someone else. Two generations later, in 2018, Alicia was working at the snack shop in Madrid’s Atocha train station when it overflowed with protestors and strikers. All women --- and so many of them --- protesting what? Alicia wasn’t entirely sure. She couldn’t have known that Maria was among them. Alicia didn’t have time for marches; she was just trying to hang on until the end of her shift, when she might meet someone to take her away for a few hours, to make her forget.