Cristina Pérez Díaz is a Puerto Rican poet and translator working in English, Spanish, and Ancient Greek. She has a PhD in Classics from Columbia University and teaches at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. She published the poetry volume From the Founding of the Country (Winter Editions) and the hybrid of translation and academic essay Antígona by José Watanabe: A Bilingual Edition with Critical Essays (Routledge). Her poems and translations have been featured in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, Hayden's Ferry Review, and The Slowdown.