Translators Database
With over 25 years experience translating Chinese into English, Aaron Bray has led a somewhat storied life. He first started learning Chinese as an Army linguist at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA. He has since earned advanced degrees in teaching Chinese as a Second Language, International Business, and Film Production. He also holds a Bachelors Degree in Music and Creative Writing. It was while working in the field of Creative Developmen...
I work with Portuguese, Italian and Spanish. I have translated works by Osman Lins, Caio Fernando Abreu, Regina Rheda, Marina Colasanti, Rossana Campo, Elena Ferrante, and Dacia Maraini, among others, and have been the recipient of two translation grants from Brazil’s Fundação Biblioteca Nacional.
Akshata Nair will co-translate, with Prutha Honrao, Powadas and Lavaṇis by a Marathi poet.
Akshata Nair is a student-researcher based in India. She holds an undergraduate degree in International Studies with a minor in Literary and Cultural Studies. Her academic training engages the intersections of politics, literature, and social movements across cultural contexts.
Akshata is passionate about learning languages and is fluent in five In...
Alex Brostoff is Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Georgetown University, where they are Affiliated Faculty in Global and Comparative Literature and the Center for Latin American Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar and translator, they study how trans and queer cultural production negotiates and recasts the relationship between self-figuration and decolonial critique. Their first book, The Autotheory Effect: Hemisp...
Alex Nelson is an emerging translator who recently graduated from Yale University. At Yale, she studied in the Comparative Literature Department, where she specialized in translating French voices from the Asian diaspora. Her translation of Linda Lê’s “La mouche” (The Fly) from the collection Autres Jeux avec le Feu was published on Asymptote’s Translation Tuesdays blog. Her work has also been featured in issues of the Jou...
Alex Niemi is a writer and translator from the French, Russian, and Spanish. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology. In 2023, her translation of For the Shrew by Anna Glazova won the AATSEEL Book Award and the Heldt Prize. She is also the translator of Hekate by Anna Glazova and The John Cage Experiences by Vincent Tholomé, as well as the author of the poetry chapbook Elephant....
My translations from Czech include novels by Zuzana Říhová, Magdaléna Platzová, Jáchym Topol, Bianca Bellová, Petra Hůlová, J. R. Pick, Tomáš Zmeškal, Josef Jedlička, Heda Margolius Kovály, Patrik Ouředník, and Miloslava Holubová. I have also Englished stories, plays, subtitles, young adult and children’s books, song lyrics, reportages, essays, poems, philosophy, art history, and an opera.
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), Lin Yi-Han’s Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise (shortlisted for the Baifang Schell Books Prize), Park Seolyeon’s A Magical Girl Retires, and Elaine Vilar Madruga’...
Alice-Catherine Carls is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Tennessee at Martin in the United States. A Sorbonne graduate, she specializes in the diplomatic, cultural, and literary history of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. She works with three languages, Polish, American English, and her native French. She has written/edited/translated thirty-two books and several hundred articles, translations, essays, and revie...
I am a translator in the language pairs Portuguese into English and Spanish into English. I have translated poetry as well as one book written by the renowned Brazilian author Heloisa Prieto. This book written by her was fiction and reflects my ability to capture the cultural nuances during the 1970’s and the Brazilian culture. It also involved a lot of fantasy and symbolic elements which attests to my advanced translation skills and how I was able to...
Allana Lieberman is a literary translator from Reno, Nevada. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, Banff International Literary Translation Centre, Bread Loaf Translator’s Conference, ALTA, and Vermont Studio Center. Her translation of Sabina Urraca’s IN HEAT is forthcoming from HarperVia in 2027. She can be found at
Allison M. Charette translates literature from French into English with a current focus on Malagasy authors, including Raharimanana, Michèle Rakotoson, Johary Ravaloson, Mose Njo, and Naivo. She founded ELTNA.org, a networking and support group for early-career translators, and has received both an NEA Literary Translation Fellowship and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant.
I have translated two novels but Alicia Yánez Cossío (Ecuador) and two by Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina). I have also translated work by Gilda Holst, Patricia Zangaro, and Silvia Molloy. I am currently working on a translation of Gorodischer’s Opus dos and, in collaboration with D.P. Snyder, Gorodischer’s story collection, Las nenas. My novel, Edge Pieces, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing.
Ms. Axsom is a literary translator with an academic background in French and Italian language, literature, and translation. Latest publications include historical graphic novels and short stories. Ms. Axsom hails from the Philadelphia area and currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.
I am a Mauritius-based translator with an MA in Specialised Translation from the University of Westminster. I translate between Mauritian Creole and English, as well as from French, Spanish, and Chinese into these two target languages. In 2025, I attended the British Centre for Literary Translation’s summer school. As a remote, part-time Mauritian Creole lecturer at Beijing Foreign Studies University, I am passionate about translating literature from ...
Amelia Parenteau is a writer, French-to-English translator, and theater-maker based in Washington, DC, whose work explores the intersections of art, culture, and social justice. An alumna of Sarah Lawrence College, she has worked with numerous theaters and companies, including the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (Connecticut), the French Institute Alliance Française (New York), No Dream Deferred (Louisiana), and People’s Light (Pennsylvania). She has...
My work as a linguist is two-fold. I spend most of my professional time as a translator for regulatory affairs. But a deep love of literature draws me to fiction and poetry translation on the side. In 2025, I translated Robert Coplan’s The Joy of Solitude from English into Spanish.
I translate between the Indian language Malayalam and English. I was an ALTA/SALT Emerging Translator’s Program 2024 mentee and translated a Malayalam novel under the guidance of acclaimed translator Jayasree Kalathil for the program, which is due for publication by a major publisher in India. I have also published a short story in The Antonym Magazine.
I am also doing a PhD in the area of Music Translation in EFLU Hyderabad, India.
Andrea Moorhead, editor of Osiris and translator of contemporary Francophone poetry. Poetry collections in English include The Carver’s Dream (Red Dragonfly Press), Tracing the Distance (The Bitter Oleander Press), and The Magician’s Tales (MadHat Press). Her collections in French include Géocide (Le Noroît), À l’ombre de ta voix (Le Noroît), and Dialogue des fantômes (AVM éd...
Andrea translates from Spanish and Portuguese and has published more than 60 works of fiction, nonfiction, and graphic narrative. Her translations have been recognized by the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute’s Translation Prize, the Sophie Castille Awards for Comics in Translation, the National Translation Award in Prose, and the Eisner Awards. She has enjoyed residencies at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and the Europäisches Über...
I am a boricua translator and copyeditor with over seven years in the language industry, specializing in education, EdTech, audiovisual, and faith-based communities.
Since 2024, I am based in a small town in New Jersey, chasing my dream of collaborating with publishing houses in NYC, Puerto Rico and Spain that focus on bringing stories into Spanish for Puerto Rican and Latino communities.
Anindita Mukherjee is a poet, editor, translator and a PhD student at the Department of English and Film Studies in University of Alberta. Her latest book How Silkworms Break Their Eggs: Selected Poems (2024) brings for the first time the Bengali poet Mridul Dasgupta’s works in English, which was nominated for the 2025 Kala Literature Awards. In 2022, her first chapbook Nothing and Variations was selected as the top ...
Translates poetry and prose from German into English. Longlisted for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (2026) for her co-translation, with Ann Cotten, of Liesl Ujvary’s Good & Safe.
I am a translator and teacher living in the Washington, D.C. area.
Anne Greeott translates prose and poetry from Italian and Spanish. She has served as an editor for The Arkansas International and Journal of Italian Translation, and has been awarded Fulbright grants to Italy and Peru, as well as an ALTA Travel Fellowship. Her translations have appeared in numerous journals. Currently she teaches languages and the arts for a secondary school in Northwest Arkansas. ...
Literary translator, from Italian to English. Member of ALTA, ATA, NCTA, PEN, Authors Guild. San Francisco Bay Area.
Anne Schuchman is a writer and translator, published in both academic and literary journals, and the recipient of awards from the Fulbright, NEH, and New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She holds a Ph.D. in Italian Studies from NYU and a MFA in Creative Nonfiction and Literary Translation from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Recent and upcoming published translations include Sardinian folktales by Grazia Deledda (Southern Review, Journal of Italian Tr...
Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity and the translator of Kim Choyeop’s If We Cannot Go at the Speed of Light, Bora Chung’s Cursed Bunny, Baek Sehee’s I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, Lee Seong-bok’s That Summer’s End, Kyung-Sook Shin’s Violets, and others. He was double-longlisted and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, a finalist for the National Boo...
Archana Madhavan is a translator of Korean literature into English based in San Jose, California. Her first book-length work was a co-translation of Glory Hole by Kim Hyun (Seagull Books, 2022). Her other poetry and prose translations have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Columbia Journal, The Washington Square Review, and more. In 2022, she was chosen for the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)...
Arunava Sinha translates classic, modern, and contemporary fiction, non-fiction and poetry from Bengali and Hindi into English. He also translates fiction and poetry from English and Hindi into Bengali. Over 100 of his translations have been published so far in India, the UK, the USA, and Australia. Over 20 of his translations have won or been shortlisted for translation awards in India and around the world. He teaches at Ashoka University, where he is ...
Aruni Kashyap is the author of How to Date a Fanatic (2026), The Way You Want To Be Loved (2024), and The House With a Thousand Stories (2013). Along with editing a collection of stories called How to Tell the Story of an Insurgency (2020), he is the translator of four novels from Assamese to English. A 2024 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University,...
Student translator at the University of Birmingham. Co-translator of El rey que fue / The King He Was.
Ayotola Tehingbola (she/her, b. ’93) is a lawyer and artist from Lagos, Nigeria. She holds an MFA from Boise State University and is currently a doctoral candidate in English & Creative Writing at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
She works from the intersections of coloniality, social oppression, alternative histories and (re)imagined futures.
Azhar Wani is translating a collection of short stories by a Kashmiri writer.
Azhar Wani was born in Baramulla, Kashmir, where he learned to interact with the world in many languages – Kashmiri at home, Urdu outdoors, English in school and from literature, Hindi through TV and cinema. It wasn’t until the 9th grade that he learnt Kashmiri as a written language when it was introduced as a compulsory language in the school curriculum. He encount...
Bethlehem Attfield is a PhD candidate at Birmingham University, where she is researching the translation of African-language literature. Her translation of an Amharic novel by Yismake Worku, titled The Lost Spell, was published by Henningham Family Press in March 2022 and was shortlisted for the 2022 TA First Translation Prize by the Society of Authors. Additionally, she is the translator and producer of the audio musical story ‘Requiem for P...
Bonnie Chau is currently serving on ALTA’s Board as an At-Large member. She is the author of the short story collection All Roads Lead to Blood (2018), and her writing has appeared in Flaunt, The Offing, Joyland, Two Lines, Fence, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in fiction with a joint concentration in literary translation from Columbia University, and has received fel...
Bouchra El Harrak joined ALTA as a Graduate Assistant in May 2024. She holds a BA in Translation and Interpretation Studies (English, French, Catalan and Moroccan Arabic) from the University of Alicante, Spain, and an MA in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Arizona. She is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Hispanic Linguistics with a minor in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. Her research interests include Morphological processing, Bilingualism ...
Brad Harmon is a translator and scholar of Nordic and German literature, and an aspiring essayist. A 2025 NEA Translation Fellow, his translations have appeared in venues ranging from Poetry, Denver Quarterly, and Circumference to The White Review, Swedish Book Review, and Best Literary Translations 2025. His debut book of literary translation, Katarina Frostenson’s poetry collection The Space of Time
Cathryn Siegal-Bergman, founder of Clevo Books, is a Cleveland State University graduate with a background in Philosophy and German and holds a Master’s in Translation Studies from Kent State. With years of experience as a freelance translator for publishers and direct clients, she is passionate about recognizing translators’ contributions to diverse literature. Inspired by her work on cookbooks and nonfiction, Cathryn founded Clevo Books to bring h...
Chen Du is a voting member of the American Translators Association and an expert member of the Translators Association of China with a master’s degree in Biophysics from Roswell Park Cancer Institute, SUNY at Buffalo and a master’s degree in Radio Physics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the United States and a few other Western countries, she has published 160+ pieces of English translations, poems, and essays in more than fifty literary jo...
Chenxin Jiang is currently serving on ALTA’s Board as Past President. She translates from Italian, German, and Chinese. Recent translations include Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story by Pietro Bartolo and Lidia Tilotta (Norton), shortlisted for the 2019 Italian Prose in Translation Award, Volatile Texts: Us Two by Zsuzsanna Gahse (Dalkey Archive), and the PEN/Heim-winning The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Chloe Martinez is the translator of Blue Like My Beloved: Poems of Mirabai (New Directions, 2026); coeditor of Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD (UChicago, 2026); and author of the poetry collection Ten Thousand Selves and the chapbook Corner Shrine. A 2026 NEA Translation Fellow, she is assistant editor at Beloit Poetry Journal and works at Claremont McKenna College.
Chris Fong Chew 招偉明 is a Chinese American writer and educational administrator pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College after completing his undergrad at Berklee College of Music. At Emerson he was part of the inaugural cohort of the Transformational Leadership Fellowship and now serves on the Presidential Advisory Committee as the Deputy Chair for Graduate Students. He also founded and leads the 501c3 Nonprofit Organization: Collec...
Christina Cook is a poet, literary translator, essayist, and book critic. Her most recent publication is a speculative non-fiction book of poetry, prose, and translation titled Roaming the Labyrinth with Marie-Claire Bancquart. Cook’s previous publications include a poetry collection titled A Strange Insomnia as well as poems, essays, book reviews, interviews, and translations that have appeared widely in journals ac...
Christopher Mattison holds an MA/MFA in Comparative Literature and Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. He is a senior editor at Zephyr Press and publishing director for the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), The University of Hong Kong. His translations from Russian include work by Dmitry Prigov, Venedikt Erofeev, and Gleb Shulpyakov. From 2010 to 2021, Mattison was based in Hong Kong, where he developed series of contemporary writi...
Cintia Santana is a poet, writer, and translator. She received a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. While growing up bilingually (Spanish/English) in California, she spent significant time in Mexico and Spain. She regularly teaches courses on translation theory and practice, and advises the Translation Studies minor at Stanford University.
Cole Seidl is a filmmaker, researcher, educator, translator, and film programmer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Cole teaches Indonesian Film History at the college level and came to translation as a means of making academic materials available to his students. He has created custom subtitles for rare Indonesian movies, translated the shooting scripts of lost films as well as contemporaneous film reviews and research from Indonesian critics and...
Colleen Noland is an emerging literary translator of Spanish into English and MFA Candidate in Creative Writing & Translation at the University of Arkansas. She translates various genres (fiction, poetry, and hybrid) and Spanishes (Mexican, Bolivian, and Iberian). She is a founding editor of Chaski Review. She has served on the editorial staff of The Arkansas International and Moon City Review. Her work has appeared in
Conor Bracken is a poet and translator. His debut collection of poems is The Enemy of My Enemy is Me (Diode Editions, 2021). He is also the translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center, 2019) and Jean D’Amérique’s No Way in the Skin Without This Bloody Embrace (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022). His translation of Jean D’Amérique’s Workshop of Silence will be publi...
Corine Tachtiris is currently serving on ALTA’s Board as President. She translates primarily the work of contemporary women authors from Francophone Africa, Canada, and the Caribbean as well as from the Czech Republic. She is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She completed an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. ...
Born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey is a writer, scholar, and translator. She has translated fiction and poetry by Brazilian writers like Maria Valéria Rezende, Conceição Evaristo, and Cristiane Sobral, among others. Her literary translations and scholarly work have appeared in Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, Latin American Literature...
Curtis Bauer is currently serving on ALTA’s Board as an At-Large member. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently American Selfie (Barrow Street Press, 2019). He is also a translator of poetry and prose from the Spanish; his publications include Home Reading Service and Mothers and Dogs by Fabio Morábito (Other Press, 2021 & 2023), Land of Women, by María Sánchez (Trinity University Press, ...
The judges note that Cynthia Shin offers the reader a kinetic illustration of what the original writer wants to say without sacrificing the power of what is not said that skillful poetry taps into.
Cynthia Shin (she/they) is an emerging translator working with contemporary Korean poetry, living in the American Midwest. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature and Germani...
D. P. Snyder is a writer, poet, critic, and literary translator from Spanish. Her work has been published in many magazines, and her book-length translations include Meaty Pleasures by Mónica Lavín, Arrhythmias by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, and Scary Story by Alberto Chimal, all of whom are contemporary Mexican authors. She is the Latin American Fiction editor at the Canadian magazine Exile Quart...
Dabin Jeong is a literary translator and a poet from Seoul, South Korea. They are currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dahyun Kim is a freelance translator who primarily translates Korean to English.
Daisy Rockwell is an artist, writer, and Hindi-Urdu translator living in Vermont. Her translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand won the 2022 International Booker Prize and the 2022 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. In 2020, she was the winner of the Scaglioni Prize for Translation of a Literary Work for Krishna Sobti’s A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There. She has received grants for her translations from...
Dan Alter is the author of two collections of poetry: My Little Book of Exiles (Eyewear, 2002) winner of the Cowan Poetry Prize, and Hills Full of Holes (Fernwood, 2025). He is also the translator of Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited (Ben Yehuda, 2024), from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, and he is the recipient of an NEA fellowship in translation. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.
Dan Bellm has published five books of poetry, including Counting (Finishing Line Press, 2023), Deep Well (Lavender Ink, 2017), and Practice: A Book of Midrash (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2008), winner of the 2009 California Book Award. Recent translations from Spanish and French include Central American Book of the Dead, by Balam Rodrigo (FlowerSong Press, 2023), finalist for the 2024 National Translation ...
Dana G. Peleg is a bilingual Hebrew/English writer and translator of prose and poetry. She won the 2018 IBBY Certification of Honor for her translation of Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit. She published two short-story collections in Hebrew, and her first novel (Giantess’ Hand) came out in 2024 i...
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