Giancarlo Huapaya
Biography
Giancarlo Huapaya (Lima, Peru) is an editor, writer, curator, and educational facilitator. His latest book, [gamerover], is a counter mapping in poetry of a neighborhood in Phoenix, Arizona which puts in tension history, language and landscape to reveal trajectories of violence and white supremacy. Huapaya’s practices focus on the archive, critical cartography, language justice and in the dialogues between poetry and the visual arts.
He is the Editorial Director of Cardboard House Press, a project dedicated to the publication of Latin American literature in translation to English and the creation of bilingual spaces in the United States. As a curator of poetics, he has presented exhibitions at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco, the University of Arizona Poetry Center in Tucson and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. As literary translator, he has translated into Spanish work by Muriel Rukeyser, C.D Wright, Susan Briante, Carmen Giménez Smith, Zêdan Xelef, among others.
(Photo: Becka Ranta)