Kianny antigua biography

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Kianny N. Antigua is a translator, writer, and Spanish lecturer from the Dominican Republic, currently based in New Hampshire.

A prolific writer of (often) bilingual children’s books—including Greña/ Crazy Hair, Kiara and the Virus/ Kiara y el virusand But There Are No Palm Trees Here—Kianny is also known for her short stories and poetry.

She also edited Literary Works by 10 Dominican Women, an anthology spotlighting “ten transcendental Dominican women writers who have lived or live outside the Dominican Republic”.

Most recently, Kianny translated Dominicana by Angie Cruz and narrated the Spanish-language audiobook—a fantastic novel which I told her I loved in my first email, an opinion she confessed to sharing (objectively, of course).

Here, we discuss the experience of translating Angie Cruz’s novel (and her fight to use dominicanismos), the systematic invisibility of Dominican