Anitra Grisales began her editorial career at Seal Press, a feminist trade publisher renowned for fiction and non-fiction. Anitra then moved to New Orleans to pursue a graduate degree at Tulane University. After earning her MA in Spanish, Anitra took her experience in trade publishing and her familiarity with academia to Duke University Press, where she worked in the Editorial Acquisitions department. Click here to see a few of the books Anitra worked on at Duke University Press and Seal Press. She is now a full-time freelance editor and translator based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Anitra is also the co-author and translator of 100 Years of Spanish Cinema (Blackwell, 2008).