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Kiely Sweatt has been living in Barcelona the last three years teaching, translating and writing. She started up, Prostibulo Poetico, in partnership with the Poetry Brothel, Poetry Society of NYC. www,prostibulopoetico.com. She has been working on branches in Madrid, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela. She is co organizer of Tri Lengua, a multi lingual reading series in Barcelona, which hosts writers in genres of poetry, fiction and nonfiction in Spanish, English and Catalan. She will be bringing this series to NYC this summer. She has a BA from WVU and an MFA in poetry from The New School. She is founding editor of Libro Rojo,, and co-editor of The Translation book, Volume 1. Her work has appeared online and in-print through such publications as The Why and the Later by Carly Sachs, Best American Poetry blog, Shampoo, and PaxAmericana among others. Her book, ´The Origin of´ is forthcoming with Patasola Press.