A family is an accident. I know because I live far from mine and sometimes I catch myself repeating their patterns from miles away, at other times they’re a band of strangers, like I would encounter at a bus stop, if we rub elbows.
Pennell Somsen
PENNELL SOMSEN (Dayton, Ohio, 1945) is a Spring 2015 graduate of CUNYBA (City University of New York Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies) with a major in “The Study and Translation of Latin American Women Writers.” Her translations of stories by Nadia Villafuerte and Roberto Azcorra Cámara have appeared in the Rio Grande Review, Latin American Literature Today, Delos Journal, Midway Journal, InTranslation (The Brooklyn Rail), Reunion: The Dallas Review, Tampa Review, The Laurel Review, Epiphany, and Your Impossible Voice.
