The American Literary Translators Association is delighted to introduce you to the 2027 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program mentors!

There are 14 mentors in 2027:

  • Assamese with Aruni Kashyap
  • Japanese with Takami Nieda
  • Korean Poetry with Jack Saebyok Jung
  • Korean Prose with Janet Hong
  • Literature from Taiwan with Natascha Bruce
  • Nepali with Rohan Chhetri
  • Panjabi with Haider Shahbaz
  • Poetry from Hong Kong with Jennifer Feeley
  • Prose from Hong Kong with Jacqueline Leung
  • Sindhi with Rita Kothari
  • Speculative Fiction from a South Asian Language with Anton Hur
  • Swedish with Rachel Willson-Broyles
  • Tamil with Peter Constantine
  • Ukrainian with Dominique Hoffman

The mentorship program allows an emerging translator to establish and develop a close working relationship with an experienced translator on a literary translation project chosen by the emerging translator.

Applications must be submitted online through our submission platform by November 30, 2026 at 11:59pm PT. View ALTA’s Submittable page for application instructions.