Liliana Torpey is a writer, critic, and translator from Oakland, CA. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
Writing
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Poetry + more
Napoli prepares to lift Serie A football title - and the entire city is already celebrating, Euronews Culture, 2023
He Comes While We Are Walking, The Rumpus, 2020
May Everything Flower, Kosmos Journal of Transformation, 2018
Translations
The women of my town return to the waters by Viviana Ayilef, NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 53, no. 3, Fall 2025
Pak’oxom by Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj, NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 53, no. 2, Summer 2025
Transfiguration and Disobey by Élian Cabrera, NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 53, no. 1, Spring 2025
tango rains by gaita nihil, NACLA Report on the Americas, vol. 53, no. 1, Spring 2025
Reviews
Document – Amelia Rosselli, 2025
Río Muerto – Ricardo Silva Romero, 2025
Spatriati – Mario Desiati, 2025
ESTA BOCA ES MÍA – Lupita Limón Corrales, 2025
What’s New in Translation Column, Asymptote, 2024-present
Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories (Review), 2024
CARNE y ARENA (Virtually present, Physically invisible) – Review, 2023
Exhibitions
Convergence, NIAD Art Center, 2026
printed matter
TEXTILE / TEXTIL
2026
sold
photos by Camila Bianchi
River Dossier
2025
