Bio

Katie Whittemore translates from the Spanish and focuses her work on writers from Spain. Full-length translations include Four by Four by Sara Mesa (Open Letter Books, 2020), The Communist’s Daughter by Aroa Moreno Durán (Tinder Press, 2020), World’s Best Mother by Nuria Labari (World Editions, 2021), Last Words on Earth by Javier Serena (Open Letter Books, 2021), and Wolfskin by Lara Moreno (Structo Press, 2022). Upcoming projects include novels by Katixa Agirre, Juan Gómez Bárcena, Aliocha Coll, and Jon Bilbao. She earned a BA from the University of New Hampshire (’05) and graduate degrees at Cambridge University (M.Phil ’07) and Middlebury College (MA ’09). She was a 2018 Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference attendee and a 2019 conference staff member. She lives in Valencia, Spain.

Project Description

To support the translation from the Spanish of In Case We Lose Power by the Spanish novelist, poet, and short fiction writer Lara Moreno (b. 1978). Her debut novel, In Case We Lose Power, is considered an early example of what Spanish critics have termed "neo-ruralism," a trend in contemporary Spanish literature that is concerned with a rural or natural setting and the ways in which characters interact with and within that space. The book is a semi-speculative, dystopian novel set in the present or very near future, in which stresses on the environment have destabilized urban areas, resulting in power shortages, economic instability, price inflation, and worsening weather conditions.