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Becka Mara McKay

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Becka Mara McKay

Becka Mara McKay earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington and an MFA in translation from the University of Iowa, where she edited eXchanges, an online journal of translation. She is currently working on her PhD in comparative literature....

Her poetry and translations have appeared in ACM, American Letters and Commentary, Columbia, Controlled Burn, Cranky, eXchanges, Hayden's Ferry Review, Third Coast, small spiral notebook, TWO LINES, and others. In 2004 she received a fellowship from the American Literary Translators Association. In 2006 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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Articles by Becka Mara McKay

Teaching in Translation: The Translation Workshop
By Becka Mara McKay
I was hired in 2009 to teach translation in Florida Atlantic University’s MFA program—something that had never been offered in the MFA curriculum. To encourage as many students as possible…
From “Laundry”
By Suzane Adam
I don't blame my parents for what happened next, they had enough troubles.
Translated from Hebrew by Becka Mara McKay
Ten Short Pieces
By Alex Epstein
Who, these days, hasn't woken from a dream of murdering an angel?
Translated from Hebrew by Becka Mara McKay
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