2026 Awards Judges

Meet the judges of the 2026 ALTA awards!

National Translation Award in Poetry

Karen Kovacik

Karen Leeder

Robyn Creswell

National Translation Award in Prose

Addie Leak

Eva Apelqvist

Hanna Leliv

N Kalyan Raman

Priscilla Layne

ALTA First Translation Prize

Kristen Vida Alfaro

Tess Lewis

Wendy Call

Italian Prose in Translation Award

Candice Whitney

Jim Hicks

Sherry Roush

Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize

Judy Halebsky

Rohini Chowdhury

Thuy Dinh

Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award

D. P. Snyder

Jacob Rogers

Will Morningstar

Travel Fellowships

Anushka Sen

Calvin Olsen

Michelle Mirabella