Sam Bett studied Japanese at UMass-Amherst and Kwansei Gakuin University. Awarded the Grand Prize in the 2016 JLPP International Translation Competition, he has translated fiction by Yoko Ogawa,...

Dan Hanrahan is a writer, translator, musician, and actor who lives in Baltimore. 

John Keene is a writer, translator, and literary advocate. His recent books include the story and novella collection Counternarratives (New Directions, 2015); the art book GRIND (ITI Press, 2016),...

Lily Meyer is a writer and translator living in Washington, D.C.

KG Hutchins is a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, currently writing his dissertation on Mongolian traditional music. He has been studying the Mongolian...

Kenneth Linden has an M.A. from Indiana University’s Central Eurasian Studies Department, where he is a Ph.D. candidate. His dissertation is on collectivization of livestock in the Mongolian...

John Vater received an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa. He translates from Hindi. He was selected as the ‘Emerging Translator’ from the US in 2018 for the...

Laura Brueck is associate professor of South Asian literature in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Program in Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University. She is...

Mary Childs is a lecturer at the University of Washington in the Comparative History of Ideas program, where she teaches courses on the Black Sea region, Georgian literature and culture, and...

Veronica Scott Esposito is the author of four books, including The Doubles and The Surrender. Her writing has appeared in publications including the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement,...

Christina Vega-Westhoff is a poet, translator, aerialist, and teaching artist living in Buffalo, NY. She teaches with the Bird’s Nest Circus Arts, the Geneseo Migrant Center, Just Buffalo...

Paula Haydar is assistant professor of Arabic at the University of Arkansas. She holds a PhD in comparative literature and an MFA in Literary Translation. To date, she has translated twelve novels...

Claire C. Jacobson is from Seattle and a graduate of the University of Iowa. A teacher and writer, she also translates from French and Arabic. She is the assistant interviews editor...

Andrea Lingenfelter’s translations include The Changing Room: Selected Poetry of Zhai Yongming, Hon Lai Chu’s collection of surrealistic short fiction The Kite Family, and the novels...

Jennifer Feeley’s original writings and translations from the Chinese have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including FIELD, Epiphany, Cha, Chinese Literature Today, PEN...

So J. Lee is a translator and writer. She studied English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where she won the Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in Lyric Poetry and scholarships for her...

Kaitlin Rees, born in Wampsville, has been moving between New York and Hanoi since 2011. With Nhã Thuyên she founded AJAR, a small bilingual publisher with an online journal...

David Lisenby lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where he is a professor of Spanish at William Jewell College. He has translated work by Juan Villoro, Abilio Estévez, Gerardo Fulleda...

Andrew Hungate is a writer and reviewer from Portland, OR. His work has appeared previously in Literary Imagination, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Scofield, and Literary Matters. 

Jessica Sequeira is an American translator. After studying at Harvard and the University of Cambridge, she started translating Latin American writers. Land of Smoke is her first translation for...

Jūra Avižienis has been translating Lithuanian literature into English since 1990, when her first translations appeared in Violeta Kelertas’s anthology ­Come Into My Time:...

Jayde Will (1978) is a literary translator. He has an MA in Fenno-Ugric Linguistics from Tartu University. His translations of Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian authors have been...

Born in Detroit, poet and translator Andrew J. Shields was educated at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a PhD in comparative...

Mary Catherine Ford has a degree in Middle Eastern Studies from Columbia University and an MFA in creative writing from Queens College. She lives in Queens. 

Kerri Pierce is a writer and translator living in Pittsford, New York. She has translated fiction and nonfiction from eight languages. Her short translations have appeared in...

Abby Comstock-Gay is a translator currently living in Rochester, New York. She also teaches Turkish at University of Rochester. Up until recently, she was an associate editor with Words Without...

Lara Vergnaud is an editor and literary translator who has translated works from the French by authors such as Mohand Fellag, Joy Sorman, Marie-Monique Robin, and Scholastique Mukasonga. She...

Geoff Bendeck has written essays for the New York Times, Men’s Journal, Washingtonian Magazine, Paris Review Daily and the Rumpus, among others. His literary criticism has appeared at...

Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ed Moreno is a researcher, writer, poet, translator, and bookseller. His work is influenced by the art and activism of the early AIDS epidemic. A PhD...

Jeffrey Zuckerman's translations from the French include Ananda Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins, Antoine Volodine’s Radiant Terminus, and Thomas Clerc’s Interior,...

Will Evans earned BA degrees from Emory University in history and Russian language and culture. He also received an MA in Russian culture at Duke University. He is president at Cinestate, an...

Born in southeastern Massachusetts, now a long-time resident of New York, Scott Shanahan writes fiction, and translates from Spanish and Catalan. He holds a B.A. in English and Spanish from...

Hannah Chute received her master’s in literary translation studies from the University of Rochester, where she also pursued her undergraduate studies in comparative literature and harp....

Iman Childs is a filmmaker and media critic with a passion for socially conscious media that connects cultures. She received a Fulbright research grant to research and film her...

Jeffrey Angles (1971– ) is a professor of Japanese and translation at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishōnen Culture in...

After living in Thailand for several years, Susan F. Kepner earned her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, where she continued to translate, write about, and teach modern Thai...

Peter Montalbano, translator of Thai author Uthis Haemamool’s SEA Write award-winning novel the Brotherhood of Kaeng Khoi (original: Lap Lae, Kaeng Khoi) and numerous other...

Scott E. Myers (梦之恩) is a translator of Chinese who focuses on contemporary queer fiction from the PRC. He holds a BA in philosophy from Hampshire College and master’s...

Emily Lever is a French-American writer. She has written for Four Pins and Complex and tweets @levzofgrass.

Colin McDonald is Marketing and Events Coordinator at Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago.

Pamela Carmell received a BS in Spanish studies, an MA in Spanish literature, and an MFA in creative writing/poetry and literary translation from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. She has...

Eliza Griswold is a poet and journalist who lives in New York City.

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of two books of poetry, The Ground (2012) and Heaven (2015), both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, as well as a...

Katherine E. Young is the author of Day of the Border Guards and former poet laureate of Arlington, VA. Young has translated two collections of poetry by Inna Kabysh, Two Poems and Blue Birds and...

M. Bartley Seigel is the author of the poetry collection This Is What They Say (Typecast Publishing, 2013). His writing appeared or is forthcoming in such literary magazines...

Joshua L. Freeman is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, where his research focuses on Uyghur cultural history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His...

Jessie Chaffee is blog editor at Words without Borders and the author of the debut novel Florence in Ecstasy (Unnamed Press, 2017). She received a 2014–2015 Fulbright Grant in...

Eleni Sikelianos is a poet and writer whose most recent work is You Animal Machine.  Forthcoming is Make Yourself Happy.  She has previously translated Exchanges on Light by Jacques...

Olivia Baes holds a BA in comparative literature and a MA in cultural translation from the American University of Paris. Her translation of Jean-Luc persécuté by...

Kristin Gee Hickman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on language politics and the place of colloquial Arabic in contemporary...

Bella Dalton-Fenkl lives in the Hudson Valley. Her art and photography have been exhibited at the Water Street Gallery in New Paltz, and at Mill Street Loft and the Barrett Art Center in...

Aaron Poochigian earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota in 2006 and is completing an MFA in Poetry at Columbia University. His book of translations from Sappho, Stung...

Daniel Levine is the author of Hyde (HMH 2014), which was a New York Times Editor's Choice novel. He studied English literature and creative writing at Brown University and...

Gnaomi Siemens has a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and is an MFA candidate in poetry and literary translation at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Her work has...

Charles Waugh lives in the small mountain town of Logan, Utah, where he teaches at Utah State University. With Nguyen Lien and Van Gia, he is the co-editor and co-translator of Wild...

Margaret Besser studied French and Francophone literature at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and earned a masters in translation studies from the University of Geneva, Switzerland,...

Allison M. Charette translates literature from French into English. She received a 2015 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for Naivo’s Beyond the Rice Fields, the first novel to be translated...

Gregory Pardlo's ​collection​ Digest (Four Way Books) won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Digest​ was also shortlisted for the​...

Julia Cohen's most recent book is a hybrid collection of lyric essays, I Was Not Born (Noemi Press, 2014). Her other books are Collateral Light (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014) and Triggermoon...

Susanna Nied is an American writer and translator. She has loved the Danish language since learning it as an exchange student in 1965. She has been honored with the Landon Translation Award...

Penny Edwards teaches Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of the award-winning Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation (Hawai’i University...

Ken McCullough was born in Staten Island, N.Y., but spent his formative years in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He considers the mountains of Montana and Wyoming to be his spiritual home,...

Andy Young grew up in southern West Virginia and has spent most of her adult life in New Orleans. For the last two years she has lived in Egypt, where she documented the revolution in essays,...

K. Thomas Kahn‘s criticism has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Millions, The Quarterly Conversation, Open Letters Monthly, Numéro Cinq, Bookslut, Berfrois, and other...

Tynan Kogane is an editor at New Directions. He was raised in Seattle and he graduated from the New School.

Adrian Nathan West is author of The Aesthetics of Degradation and translator of numerous works of European and Latin American literature, including Pere Gimferrer’s Fortuny and...

Eric M. B. Becker is editor of Words without Borders. He is also an award-winning journalist and literary translator. In 2014, he earned a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for a collection of short...

B.J. Epstein is a senior lecturer in literature and public engagement at the University of East Anglia. She’s also a writer, editor, and Swedish-to-English translator. She is the author...

Katherine Silver’s most recent translations include works by Martín Adán, Daniel Sada, Horacio Castellanos Moya, César Aira, and Jorge Luis Borges, and Julio...

Edward Gauvin has received prizes, fellowships, and residencies from PEN America, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright program, Ledig House, the Lannan...

Meghan Forbes is C-MAP Fellow for Central and Eastern Europe at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her reviews, essays, and translations have appeared in Words Without...

Poet and translator Mark Weiss was born in New York in 1943. Since publishing his first poetry collection in 1976, he has since co-edited the anthology Across the Line / Al otro lado: The Poetry...

Adam Cullen (1986) is a poet and translator of Estonian literature and poetry into English. He has translated works by a wide range of Estonian authors including Tõnu...

David Kurnick teaches in the English Department at Rutgers University. He is the author of Empty Houses: Theatrical Failure and the Novel (Princeton, 2012), and his translation of...

Jake Schneider is a writer, translator, and New Jersey native. After studying creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, in 2012 he received a National Endowment for the Arts...

Amanda DeMarco is the publisher of Readux Books and translation editor at The Offing. The recipient of a 2015 PEN-Heim grant, her reviews have recently appeared in the Wall Street...

Meg Matich (b. 1989 in Pittsburgh) is a New York City-based poet and translator whose translations have appeared in or are forthcoming from Catch & Release, Exchanges, Absinthe, and Asymptote,...

Emma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence, Rhode Island, where she is opening Riffraff, a bookstore and bar. She is the recipient of a PEN/Heim grant, an NEA Translation...

Wendell Ricketts has worked professionally as a translator from Italian since 1998. In addition to The Wrong Door: The Complete Plays of Natalia Ginzburg (U. Toronto Press, 2008), an...

Paula Gordon (Wilmington, Delaware, 1961) translates from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian into English. She translated the play Otpad by Ljubomir Đurković (Montenegro...

Dustin Illingworth is a critic, essayist, and fiction writer based in California. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub,...

David Karashima is an assistant professor of creative writing at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University. He has translated into English works by authors such as Hitomi...

Charles Sabatos is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yeditepe University in Istanbul.  He is the translator of Pavel Vilikovský’s Ever Green...

Janet Livingstone is a translator, trainer, and nonprofit consultant based in Bratislava, Slovakia.  She has been translating film scripts, subtitles, novels and...

Brian L. Price (PhD University of Texas at Austin) is an Associate Professor of Spanish at Brigham Young University. His areas of scholarly interest include twentieth and twenty-first-century...

Saskia Vogel is an author and Swedish-to-English literary translator. Her debut novel, I Am a Pornographer, will be published in 2019 by Dialogue Books/Little, Brown UK,...

Beau Bothwell, is Assistant Professor of Music at Kalamazoo College. He completed his PhD at Columbia University in 2013 with a dissertation entitled “Sound, State, Sawa: Music and Political...

C.J. Collins is a librarian and a translator based in Grafton, NY. 

Angela Rodel is a professional literary translator living and working in Bulgaria. She holds a BA from Yale and an MA from UCLA in linguistics. She received a 2014 NEA translation grant for Georgi...

Kristina Fazzalaro is an editorial intern at Words without Borders. 

Madeline Earp is a China freedom of expression expert and research analyst for Asia with Freedom House's annual Freedom on the Net internet freedom index. She was formerly the senior Asia...

Jenny Wang Medina is a translator and PhD candidate in East Asian languages and cultures at Columbia University in New York City. Her dissertation examines the reinvention of Korean culture in the...

Christina Cook is the author of Lake Effect (Finishing Line Press, 2012), which received the Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. Her most recent work has appeared in New Ohio...

David Gramling teaches German literature at the University of Arizona, where he is a founding member of the Arizona Center for Turkish Studies, as well as Director of Graduate Studies for the...

Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse served as the founding Chair of the English Department at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, from 2011–13. While there, she introduced translation...

Max Shmookler is a doctoral candidate in the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University, where he is a recipient of a Dean's Fellowship. His work...

Tom La Farge has written two novels, Zuntig and The Crimson Bears, and a book of tales, Terror of Earth. He co-founded the Writhing Society, a weekly salon for constrained writing in Brooklyn, and...

Daniel Levin Becker is the youngest member of the Oulipo. He is the author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature (Harvard University Press, 2012) and the translator of Georges...

Elizabeth Applegate holds a Ph.D. in French literature from New York University.  Her research focuses on testimony and on literary and theatrical representations of the 1994 Tutsi genocide...

Jason Miklian (MSc, International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science) is a researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, exploring the arenas where conflict and...

Roberto Echavarren is a Uruguayan poet and translator.

Carolina De Robertis is a writer and translator of Uruguayan origins, and the author of three novels: The Gods of Tango, Perla, and the international bestseller The Invisible Mountain, all...

Author and screenwriter Raquel Nogara Lubartowski was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Her screenwriting credits include A Bullet for Che (2012), a feature-length narrative film produced by Laroux....

Fabián Severo was born in Artigas, Uruguay in 1981. He is the author of three books of poetry including Noite nu Norte and Nós Otros. He is a literature teacher and conducts creative...

Paula Simonetti was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1989. She has a degree in literature from the Universidad de la República in Uruguay and is the author of the poetry collection En la boca...

Victoria Estol was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1983.  She is a sociologist and a student of psychology. Bicho Bola, her first book of poetry, translated by Seth Michelson was published by...

Andrea Durlacher was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1984. Her books include the poetry collection Ni un segundo para arrepentirme. Her work has appeared in translation in Palabras Errantes and...

Rafael Courtoisie Beyhaut (b. 1958) is one of Uruguay's leading writers, with work published in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe. The author of three novels, sixteen volumes of poetry,...

Mario Benedetti (September 14, 1920 – May 17, 2009), born in Pasa de los Toros, Tacuarembó Province, Uruguay, was one of Latin America’s most renowned and beloved writers. As...

Uruguayan-born author Cristina Peri Rossi is a poet, novelist, and author of short stories. She has published more than twenty books and won numerous literary awards, including, most recently,...

Shamshad Abdullaev (b. 1957) is the leading poet of the so-called “Fergana School” (for its “manifesto,” see Modern Poetry in Translation). Abdullaev has been...

Khayrullo Fayz was born in Khujand, Tajikistan. 

Hamid Ismailov was born in Kyrgyzstan to a deeply religious Uzbek family of Mullahs, Sayids, and Khodjas, many of whom had lost their lives during the persecution of the Stalin era. He received an...

Ana Nuño (1957) is a poet and writer. Her main fields of research and work are poetry, journalism, and politics. As a poet, she has seen her Spanish-language work published in Spain, as...

Israel Centeno (Caracas, 1958) has published thirteen books, mostly novels, but also short fiction and poetry. Through his narratives he conveys a sense of the many shortcomings of a society...

Milagros Socorro (Maracaibo, 1960) is a journalist and fiction writer, renowned in Venezuela for her interviews, a genre in which she excels. She won the National Journalism Award in 1999, and...

Yolanda Pantin (Caracas, 1954) is one of the most distinguished poets of her generation. Her poems introduced in Venezuelan poetry an undaunted woman’s voice devoid of rhetorical emphasis...

Victoria De Stefano (Viserba, Italy, 1940) is one of the foremost Venezuelan contemporary novelists. In her novels, she achieves a unique intertwining of historical events and personal memory. She...

Rafael Cadenas (Barquisimeto, 1930) is Venezuela’s most renowned and celebrated living poet. Whether in the prose poems of the 1960s or his more condensed, at times aphoristic later...

María Auxiliadora Álvarez (Caracas, 1956) is a poet and scholar. Her poems are born in that tenuous frontier between body and experience, memory and desire, violence and humility....

Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles (Caracas, 1977) has published four novels (Blue Label, Libros de El Nacional, 2010; Transilvania Unplugged, Alfaguara, 2011; Liubliana, Ediciones B, 2012; Jezabel,...

Ana Teresa Torres (Caracas, 1945), a psychologist and analyst, began publishing in 1984. Since then she has caught the attention of a widening audience in the local literary scene and beyond....

Alberto Barrera Tyszka (Caracas, 1960) is a novelist, short story writer, TV screenwriter, and journalist. Barrera’s fictions explore the complexities and paradoxes of modern urban life in...

Slavko Zupcic, a psychiatrist, occupational physician, and writer, was born in Valencia, Venezuela, in 1970. He has published three collections of stories—Dragi Sol (Dragi Sun), 1989;...

Juan Carlos Chirinos (Valera, Venezuela, 1967) is author of the novel El niño malo cuenta hasta cien y se retira (2010), and two award-winning short story collections, Leerse los gatos...

Do Thanh Lang (b. 1986) is a Vietnamese artist based in Ho Chi Minh City. He graduated from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts and his work has been exhibited at several...

Dương Nghiễm Mậu (1936–2016), whose real name was Phí Ích Nghiễm, was born in Mậu Hoà village, Đan Phượng,...

Trần Thị NgH was born and grew up in the South of Vietnam. Her first collection of short stories, Những Ngày Rất Thong Thả (Wandering days), was published in...

Born in Nam Dinh, Trần Dần was barely twenty years old when he joined the Viet Minh in 1946. Eight years later, he returned to Hanoi following the battle of Dien Bien Phu and the...

Nguyễn-Hoàng Quyên (b. 1993) is a translator, writer and curator based in Vietnam.

Bùi Ngọc Tấn (1934–2014) was born in Câu Tử Ngoại village, Hợp Thành commune, Thuỷ Nguyên district, Hải Phòng City....

P.K. has published his writings on Tiền Vệ and the bilingual AJAR magazine. In 2012, he and other authors published a collection of flash fiction, Màu cỏ xanh trong...

Pháp Hoan was born in 1992 in Bình Thuận. He has lived and worked in the European Institute of Applied Buddhism (Germany). His works appear in Tiền Vệ. His debut...

Nhã Thuyên has authored several books of poetry, short fiction, and some tiny books for children. Translations of their poetry and writing appear in Poems of Lưu Diệu...

Đỗ Bích Thúy was born in 1974 in Ha Giang, Viet Nam.  After graduating from the Academy of Journalism and Communication in 1997, she wrote for the Army Literature and...

Nguyen Hung was born and raised in Hanoi. He received his MA in International Studies at the University of Oregon, and a PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Osaka in Japan.

Nguyen Phan Que Mai was born in 1973 in a small village in northern Vietnam, and grew up in the Mekong Delta, in southern Vietnam. She studied in Australia under a development scholarship from...

Ngo Tu Lap is the winner of seven literary prizes in Vietnam, where he has published four books of fiction, two books of poetry, three books of essays, and many translations. He returned to...

Marie Etienne is the author of eight collections of poems, five novels, and two books on the theater. She spent her childhood in Indochina, in what is now Viet Nam, during the Second World War...