Dominican-born poet, essayist, short story writer and translator Rhina P. Espaillat has published seven books and three chapbooks, including three in both English and her native Spanish. Her Where Horizons Go, won the 1998 T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry and Rehearsing Absence earned the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award. Her most recent collections are Playing at Stillness and El olor de la memoria/The Scent of Memory (Cuentos/Short Stories).

Rhina is the honoree for the 2008 Newburyport Literary Festival, which begins on April 25th and lasts 3 days. For further information visit their website at: http://www.newburyportliteraryfestival.org