Becka Mara McKay teaches translation and creative writing at Florida Atlantic University. Her translation, from the Hebrew, of the novel Laundry was published by Autumn Hill Books in 2008. Blue Has No South, her translations of the short fiction of Alex Epstein, is forthcoming from Clockroot Books. She has received awards and grants from the Seattle Arts Commission and the American Literary Translators Association, and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006. She has published her work in American Letters & Commentary, ACM, Third Coast, The Iowa Review, Hotel Amerika, Rhino, Natural Bridge, Rattapallax, and elsewhere.