2025 ALTA Fellowships at VSC

Ahry Jeon has been awarded the ALTA Fellowship for a BIPOC translator who identifies as queer/woman/non-binary/LGBTQ+. Ahry Jeon is a translator and writer, working from Korean to English, with a focus on contemporary realistic fiction. After completing her studies at Stanford University, she currently resides in Brooklyn. In 2024, she received a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference. Her most recent translation, an excerpt from Bright Night by Choi Eunyoung, is forthcoming in The Southern Review (Summer 2025).

Peter Burzyński received the ALTA Fellowship for a mid-career translator. Burzyński is the translator of Martyna Buliżańska’s This Is My Earth (New American Press, 2019) and the author of the chapbook A Year Alone inside of Woodland Pattern (Adjunct Press, 2022). His first full-length book of poetry, Infinite Zero, will be published in 2025 by Writ Large Press.