Born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, Hope Maxwell Snyder has a Ph.D. in Spanish Medieval Literature from the University of Manchester. Books include The Houdini Chronicles. Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Blackbird, Poetry Northwest, Free State Review, and other journals. Founder of Somondoco Press and former Writer in Residence at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, Hope also founded and for eight years ran the Sotto Voce Poetry Festival.
