Esther Allen

Esther Allen is a writer and translator who teaches in both the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian and the French Programs at the CUNY Graduate Center and at Baruch College (CUNY). A two-time recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships (1995 and 2010), she was a 2009-2010 Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. In 2014-2015, she was a Biography Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography working on a biography of José Martí now under contract with Henry Holt & Co.