Robin Myers is a Mexico City-based poet and Spanish-to-English translator. Recent book-length translations include WHAT COMES BACK by Javier Peñalosa M. (2024), THE BRUSH by Eliana Hernández-Pachón (2024), IN VITRO by Isabel Zapata (2023), BARILOCHE by Andrés Neuman (2023) and COPY by Dolores Dorantes (2022). Other translations have appeared in Granta, The Baffler, Kenyon Review, The Common, Harvard Review, Two Lines, Waxwing and elsewhere.

A 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, she was longlisted twice for the 2022 National Translation Award in poetry and among the winners of the 2019 Poems in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets). As a poet, Robin is the author of the forthcoming CENTRO (Coffee House Press, 2026). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2022, Guernica, The Drift, Poetry London, Yale Review, Denver Quarterly, Annulet Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review and other journals.

She is an alumna of the Vermont Studio Center, the Banff Literary Translation Centre, the Community of Writers and Under the Volcano. She is represented by the Willenfield Literary Agency.

Books by Robin Myers

Death Takes Me

written by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Robin Myers and Sarah Booker - Fiction, Mystery

A professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it to the police. When shown a crime scene photo, she finds a stark warning written in tiny print with coral nail polish on the brick wall beside the body: “Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert.” The professor becomes the first informant on the case, which is led by a detective newly obsessed with poetry and trailed by a long list of failures. But what has the professor really seen? As the bodies of more castrated men are found alongside lines of verse, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems to put a stop to the violence spreading throughout the city.