Bio

Soleil Davíd is a poet and translator from the Philippines and is the author of the chapbook Equatorial (Aklat Ulagad, 2024). Her honors include grants and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ and Translators’ Conferences, PEN America, Barbara Deming Fund, and the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. She received a BA with high distinction from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from Indiana University Bloomington. She is a senior editor for translation at The Margins.

Project Description

To support the translation of the short story collection The Compendium of Impossible Objects by Carlo Paulo Pacolor from Filipino. The Compendium of Impossible Objects is the first short story collection by Pacolor, a nonbinary writer, director, and playwright. In these 13 stories, a man installs the most effective lock of all and gets more than he bargains for; a call center agent tries to chew a metallic piece of meat; a seismologist is the only one who feels the strongest earthquake ever recorded; a fortune teller quite literally sets the world on fire with their love; and an obscure, locally made video game is the source of mystery and misery for two generations of computer programmers. First self-published online in 2014, the collection was picked up for small press publication and distribution in 2022 and also was named a finalist for the Philippines National Book Award.