Layla Benitez-James (@laylabenitezjam) is a translator and editor based in Alicante whose essays have appeared in Tenderly Mag, EuropeNow Journal and Asymptote Journal. Poems are forthcoming in Virginia Quarterly Review and Bennington Review, and translations and poems have appeared in Latino Book Review, Poetry London, The London Magazine, The Acentos Review, Hinchas de Poesia, Guernica, Waxwing, and elsewhere. Her audio essays about translation can be found at Asymptote Journal Podcast. Her first chapbook, God Suspected My Heart Was a Geode But He Had to Make Sure was selected by Major Jackson for Cave Canem's 2017 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize and published by Jai-Alai Books in Miami.