Esperanza Hope Snyder

Author of
Orange Wine (Bindery, 2025)
Esperanza and Hope (Sheep Meadow Press, 2018)
Translator of
Delicates by Wendy Guerra (Seagull Books, 2023)

Esperanza Hope Snyder is a poet, novelist, translator, and playwright. She is the author of a poetry collection, Esperanza and Hope, co-translator (with Nancy Naomi Carlson) of Wendy Guerra’s Delicates (noted in The New York Times) and of the forthcoming novel Orange Wine (Bindery Books, 2025). Esperanza grew up in Bogotá, has lived in Italy and Spain, and currently resides in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. She holds degrees from William and Mary, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Medieval Spanish Literature from the University of Manchester. Esperanza has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and The Community of Writers and fellowships from The Gettysburg Review and The Kenyon Review. Her poems and translations have appeared in Blackbird, The Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, South Florida Poetry Journal, On the Seawall, The Southern Review, and other journals. She loves walking on the towpath, traveling, and taking photographs, and has served as Writer in Residence at Hood College and as Poet Laureate of Shepherdstown. Founder of the Sotto Voce Poetry Festival and of The Society for Creative Writing at Shepherd University, where she served as Poet in Residence, Esperanza has also been Assistant Director of Bread Loaf in Sicily and co-coordinator of the Lorca Prize. Esperanza’s poem, “So Many Wars” was nominated for a 2023 Pushcart Prize.

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