Thomas Mira y Lopez is a writer and translator, as well as the author of The Book of Resting Places (Counterpoint Press, 2017).
His work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review Online, and The American Scholar among others. He holds MFAs in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona and Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. He was the 2017-2018 Kenan Visiting Writer at UNC-Chapel Hill and a 2015-2016 Olive B. O'Connor Fellow at Colgate University.
His translations of the Brazilian author José J. Veiga were awarded an NEA Fellowship in 2025. They can or will be found in Latin American Literature Today, Words Without Borders, and The Penguin Book of Brazilian Short Stories.
He is an editor of Territory, a literary project about maps and other strange objects, and a fiction editor at DIAGRAM. Originally from New York, Mira y Lopez lives in Iowa City, where he teaches Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Iowa.
