The votes are in! We are glad to introduce you to the newest members of ALTA’s Board:

Alexa Frank

Alexa Frank is an Editor at HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and the Fulbright Program, she has edited titles such as Tomihiko Morimi’s The Tatami Galaxy (shortlisted for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize) and Lin Yi-Han’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise (shortlisted for the Baifang Schell Books Prize). Her forthcoming titles include books by Fumio Yamamoto, Park Seolyeon, Kanako Nishi, Tiffany Tsao, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Elaine Vilar Madruga, and Francoise Sagan. She has guest lectured at Bard College, Hunter College, and Waseda University. Alexa also translates Japanese manga, such as Kyoko Okazaki’s River’s Edge (nominated for the 2024 Eisner Awards) and Nazuna Saito’s Offshore Lightning (winner of the 2024 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Collection). In 2024, she received the Sophie Castille Award for comics in translation. Her translation of Fumiko Takano’s Miss Ruki is forthcoming from the New York Review of Comics.

Stine An

Stine An is a poet, literary translator, and technical writer based in New York City. Her writing and translations have appeared in Best Literary Translations 2024, Best American Experimental Writing 2018, Poem-a-Day, Words Without Borders, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard College and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University and is the recipient of fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, Yaddo, ALTA, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her publications include Today’s Morning Vocabulary by Yoo Heekyung (Zephyr Press, 2025), S_MMER CR_SH (Sarabande Books, 2025), and Comet & Star written by Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee (Enchanted Lion Books, 2024). Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite, is a winner of the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize. Her interdisciplinary work explores diasporic poetics, experimental translation, and virtual performance.

Thierry Kehou

Thierry Kehou is a writer and literary translator from French, with an interest in francophone writers from the Black diaspora. He is the translator of A Sun to be Sewn (Other Press) by Jean D’Amérique, named a 2023 NPR Book of the Day, and his translation of Cameroonian writer Francis Bebey’s Three Little Shoeshiners was longlisted for the 2020 John Dryden Translation Competition. He has been awarded fellowships, grants, and residencies from the Fulbright Program, National Endowment for the Arts, Mass Cultural Council, Bread Loaf Translators Conference, and Wassaic Project. His writing has appeared in Departures, Lampblack, States, and The Huron River Review. He holds an MFA in fiction writing from Rutgers University-Newark, and is cofounder of the Lampblack Literary Foundation, an organization supporting black writers. He lives with his wife and two children in Provincetown, MA where he is the fellowship director at the Fine Arts Work Center.

Welcome to Alexa, Stine, and Thierry, and thank you to all ALTA members who cast their votes!