Life

She has published fifteen books of translations, by notable Spanish and Latin American authors.

She is a member of ALTA (American Literary Translators Association

American Literary Translators Association

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) and vice-president of Language Research, Inc., founded by I.A. Richards, in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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She supported James N. Yamazaki's story publication. Cola Franzen lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Her work has appeared in Two Lines, Puerto del sol, Temblor, New American Writing.

Awards

• 2000 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Translations

• Alicia Borinksy The Collapsible Couple/ La pareja desmontable, a book of poems in bilingual translation (2000)

(reprinted 1995)) based on Emilio García Gómez's Poemas arábigoandaluces.