Lot’s Feud

The poet and novelist Luisa Futoransky was born in Buenos Aires. She studied music at the Conservatorio Municipal from 1953 to 1961. While in law school at the University of Buenos Aires in the late 1960s, she studied poetry with Jorge Luis Borges. In 1970, Futoransky attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; her poetry has come to reflect the four decades of travel that followed, in which she explores themes of exile, language, and gender, often through Jewish motifs. From 1976 to 1981, she taught in China and Japan, before settling in France. Her works have been translated from Spanish into English, French, Hebrew, Portuguese, German, and Japanese.