Marguerite Feitlowitz is an American author and translator whose work has focused on "languages-within-languages" and the way disaster "affects our relationship to language." She is the author of A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, a 1998 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, as well as numerous essays and translations.
A vocal critic of the Bush administration's human rights record, Feitlowitz has published a number of articles on the subject in Salon https://web.archive.org/web/20070208213342/http://archive.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/01/06/torture/index_np.html and The International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/18/opinion/edfeit.php
She is a professor of Literature at Bennington College in Vermont.