Amalia Gladhart began writing stories and poems as a child growing up in Michigan. While she vividly remembers not being among the first to learn to read in kindergarten, she was quickly hooked by the annual young authors festival, when every kid in the school got to make their own book.
In middle school, her family spent over a year in northern Ecuador. That year of homeschooling offered more time to write—and more to write about. She’s been trying to make sense of her experiences through stories ever since. She remains fascinated by the interplay between languages, the possibilities of translation, and the cultural expectations and beliefs underlying our words.
Amalia’s short stories and flash fiction appear in The Common, Leon Literary Review, Necessary Fiction, Portland Review, Cordella Magazine, Saranac Review, and Eleven, Eleven, among other journals. She is the author of Detours, a sequence of linked flash fiction (winner of the 2011 Burnside Review Fiction Chapbook Competition) and of Best Laid Plans, a comic novella set at Flagship U. Her poems have appeared in journals including Cloudbank, Southern Poetry Review, and Iowa Review.
Amalia’s published translations include two novels by Alicia Yánez Cossío (Ecuador), The Potbellied Virgin and Beyond the Islands, and two by Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina), Trafalgar and Jaguars’ Tomb. Jaguars’ Tomb, supported by an NEA Translation Fellowship,was awarded the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute 2022 Translation Prize.
Amalia studied at Michigan State University (BA) and Cornell University (MA, PhD). A professor emerita of Spanish at the University of Oregon, Amalia lives with her family in Eugene, where she enjoys hiking, baking, jigsaw puzzles, and time with her cats.
Regal House Publishing is proud to bring you Amalia Gladhart’s Edge Pieces in 2028.
