Translators Database
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’...
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
Allie Haiyin Xiang will translate Damian Chueng’s Cat River貓河 (2006) and Precarious Life琉璃脆 (2019) from Chinese.
Allie Haiyin Xiang is a translator from Hong Kong working between Chinese and English. She studied Translation Studies at the University of Hong Kong, where she developed a strong foundation in literary analysis alongside creative practice.
She has experience translating a wide r...
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.
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. ...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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. ...
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...
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...
Dana G. Peleg is a bilingual Hebrew/English writer and translator of prose and poetry. She won the 2018 IBBY Certification of Honor (opens in new tab) for her translation of Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit. She published two short-story collections in Hebrew, and her first nove...
Daria Shchukina joined ALTA as Conference Program Assistant in June 2026.
Daria is a literary translator from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she is pursuing an MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. She translates from Russian into English, and her interests include contemporary literature, émigré literature, feminist writing, autofiction, and trauma theory. Her works have appeared in ...
Diana Thow is a literary translator and scholar working from Italian and French. Her translations include Elisa Biagini’s Close to the Teeth and Amelia Rosselli’s Hospital Series. She is currently Faculty Fellow in Residence at the University of Iowa’s Translation Program.
Dominique Hoffman translates literary fiction and nonfiction from Ukrainian. Her translations have received support from English PEN, the Ukrainian Book Institute, and Razom Literature. Published translations include Olena Stiazhkina’s Cecil the Lion Had to Die; Yaroslav Hrytsak’s
Dongshin Chang has translated plays written in classical Chinese into English, mainly plays of kunqu, which is a highly developed form of traditional Chinese theatre. His research interests include intercultural performance, traditional Chinese theatre, and writing pedagogy. He currently teaches in the Department of Theatre at Hunter College, City University of New York.
Elete has always been intrigued by how language works, ever since she started studying Spanish at high school. Keen to add another language to the mix, and encouraged by her high school Spanish teacher to explore the historical connection, Elete opted for a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Arabic.
Elete has explored her languages from a pedagogical perspective, as a high school Spanish teacher and researcher of Arabic pedagogy; as a writer, tak...
Elizabeth Heighway is a literary translator, proofreader and editor working from French and Georgian. She has translated authors including Aka Morchiladze, Lasha Bugadze, Shota Iatashvili and Tamta Melashvili. Her translation of Nana Ekvtimishvili’s The Pear Field was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and shortlisted for the EBRD Literary Prize. She is based in the UK.
Emily Hunsberger is a writer and translator from Spanish. Her translation of Wonderland: Crónicas of Belonging in América, a collection of essays by Melanie Márquez Adams, was published by Mouthfeel Press in 2025. Her translations of shorter works have appeared in Latin American Literature Today, The Southern Review, PRISM international, The Common, and Southwest Review. She has also published poetry, criticism, re...
Emmy Elvira Wassén is translating a novel by a late-modernist Swedish author.
Emmy Elvira Wassén is a writer, translator and gardener from Gothenburg, Sweden, based in Corsica, France. She is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in
psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and ancient Greek. Working primarily in English, but drawing on and translating from Swedish, Spanish, and Portuguese, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Robida, Paris...
Esther Allen is currently serving on ALTA’s Board as Secretary. She is a two-time recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships (1995 and 2010) and was a 2009-2010 Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She co-founded the PEN World Voices Festival, and guided the work of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund from its inception in 2003 to 2010. In 2006, the French government named her ...
Eva Apelqvist is an internationally published writer and a Swedish to English translator. Her middle-grade novel Mörker över skateparken was awarded best mystery for children and young adults by the Swedish Mystery Academy. Her translations have won many awards: Her translation of Moa Backe Åstot’s young adult novel Fire From the Sky was awarded a Printz Honor as only the second book in translation to ev...
Fabian Alfie is currently serving on ALTA’s Board as an At-Large member. He is a Professor of Italian at the University of Arizona. He earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1995, and he has been at the University of Arizona since 1997. His specialization is in the satiric literature of the Middle Ages, and he has published translations of Rustico Filippi (ca. 1230-1299), Folgore da San Gimignano (ca. 1270-1332), and, with his c...
Haider Shahbaz is a translator and writer from Pakistan. He has previously translated works from Urdu and Panjabi, and his forthcoming translations include Balraj Manra’s Compositions, 1964-71 (Ugly Duckling Presse) and N.M. Danish’s Children, Butterfly, Flower
I’m a Professor of Spanish at Saint Joseph’s University where I teach advanced courses on Spanish language and culture, including a course on translation as a means to learning language. My two most recent translation projects are books about the iconic Mirabal sisters and political leader Manolo Tavárez of the Dominican Republic. I’m currently trying my hand at children’s literature, tapping into my experience as a mom to translate a children...
Izidora Angel is a Bulgarian-born memoirist, essayist and literary translator based in Chicago. Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, Astra Magazine, Best Literary Translations 2024, Chicago Reader, Electric Literature and elsewhere. Izidora has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Omi, English PEN, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and Bread Loaf, among others. Her translation of She W...
J. Kates is a minor poet, a literary translator and the co-director of Zephyr Press. He has been awarded three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation, and a Käpylä Translation Prize. He has published three chapbooks of his own poems and one full book, The Briar Patch (Hobblebush Books). He is the translator of m...
Jack Saebyok Jung is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow and the author of Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus (Black Square Editions, 2025). A Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he co-translated Yi Sang: Selected Works...
Jacob Rogers translates from Galician and Spanish. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, he has also co-edited features on Galician literature for The Spanish Riveter, Asymptote, and Words Without Borders. His full-length translations include work by Manuel Rivas, Berta Dávila, and Brais Lamela, and he has work forthcoming with Dorothy, Sublunary Ed...
Jamie Olson, Ph.D., is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, Washington, where he teaches academic writing, modern American literature, and world literature in translation. He translates Russophone texts into English, with a particular emphasis on modern and contemporary poetry.
Janani Comar and Akshay Aitha are co-translating Tadi Nagamma’s short stories from Telugu.
Janani is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department for the Study of Religion where she is studying the intersection of caste and literature in South Asia. While her primary focus had been Tamil literature, Janani began learning Telugu during the pandemic through the American Institute for Indian Studies (AIIS) where she also met her ...
Janet Hong is a writer and translator based in Vancouver, Canada. She is a recipient of the TA First Translation Prize, the LTI Korea Translation Award, and the Krause Essay Prize, as well as a two-time winner of the Harvey Award for Best International Book for her translations. She has been a mentor for ALTA’s Emerging Translator Mentorship Program since 2020. Her debut novel,
Jeanine specializes in Colombian literary and academic translation into English, particularly pertaining to issues of human rights, armed conflict, and peacebuilding. She holds a BA in English from the University of Vermont and an MA in Cultural Studies from Universidad Javeriana.
Jennifer Feeley is the recipient of the 2017 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship. Her translations from Chinese include Gigi L. Leung’s novel Everyday Movement; Lau Yee-Wa’s novel Tongueless
Jenny Bhatt is a writer, literary translator, and writing instructor. Her story collection, Each of Us Killers, won a 2020 Foreword INDIES award. Her literary translation, The Shehnai Virtuoso, was shortlisted for the PFC-VoW award in India. Her nonfiction has been published at venues like The Guardian, NPR, The Washington Post, BBC Culture, The Atlantic, Dallas Morning News, Poets & Writers, Los Angeles Re...
Jim Hicks is the former executive editor of the Massachusetts Review, former director of the Comparative Literature Graduate Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a three-time nominee for UMass’s Distinguished Graduate Mentor award. Recent translations include Sami Al-Ajrami’s The Keys to My House. A Gaza Diary and Federica Marzi’s My Home Somewhere Else. Other translations include sho...
Johannes Göransson is the author of ten books of poetry and criticism – including The New Quarantine (2023) and Summer (2022) – and is the translator of several books of poetry, including works by Aase Berg, Eva Kristina Olsson, Ann Jäderlund, Helena Boberg and Kim Yideum. His poems, translations and critical writings have appeared in a wide array of journals in the US and broad, includ...
Jonathan R. Hiller is an associate professor of Italian and the chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Adelphi University. His scholarly work focuses on nineteenth-century Italian literature, music, and scientific writing, and he is an active literary translator. He translated I. U. Tarchetti’s novel Paolina and is a contributor to the Pirandello Stories for A Year Project.
Joon-Li Kim is a freelance writer and editor of fiction, non-fiction, and academic texts. She translates from Korean into English. She has appeared in The Georgia Review and On The Seawall. Her translation, with co-translator Doo-Sun Ryu, of No Hand Held Mine: Stories, by Korean author Kim Soom, is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press.
Julia Pelosi-Thorpe’s translations of Latin, Italian, and Emilian- and Friulian-Dialect poetry and prose have been published in Asymptote, Chicago Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, A Public Space, The Hopkins Review, Journal of Italian Translation, The Poetry Review, The Common, Gulf Coast, Cagibi, and other literary magazines, as well as video subtitles and art-exhibit captions. Her cotranslation with Lourdes Contreras of Marzia Grillo’s short-...
Juliana holds a Bachelor’s degree in Portuguese and Japanese Language and Literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). During her undergraduate studies, she was awarded a prestigious Monbukagakusho (MEXT) scholarship to study Japanese language and culture at Osaka University.
She later spent six years in Japan as a participant in the JET Programme, working extensively as a professional translator and interpreter. In 2013, Ju...
July Westhale was born in the American Southwest. Their books include moon moon, Trailer Trash, Unmade Hearts, and Via Negativa, which Publishers Weekly called “stunning” in a starred review. Along with Mathew Weitman and Felipe Acevedo Riquelme, they are a co-editor and translator for the Unsung Masters series collection Rolando Cárdenas: The Life and Work of a Chilean Master, which received a starred re...
Karen Kovacik is a poet and translator of contemporary Polish poetry. Her rendering of Jacek Dehnel’s Aperture was a finalist for the 2019 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and she was one of three translators for Krystyna Dąbrowska’s Tideline, a finalist for the 2022 Derek Walcott Prize. She is also the editor of Scattering the Dark, an anthology of Polish women poets. Her most recent collec...
Konami Charlton is translating a fairy-tale mystery novel from Japanese.
Konami Charlton is an emerging literary translator of Japanese to English based in Yokohama. Born on the Gold Coast, Australia, she spent two years in Japan before returning home at the start of primary school.
Growing up in a multicultural family meant that summer and winter breaks often brought visits from relatives in different parts of the world. From an ...
Laura Cesarco Eglin (poet and translator) is the co-founding editor and publisher of Veliz Books. Veliz Books is an independent press that publishes poetry, fiction, literary non-fiction, and books in translation into English from Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, and Galician. Authors Veliz Books has published in translation include: Amanda Berenguer, translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra, Chus Pato, translated from the Galician by Erín Moure, ...
Lauren K. Wolfe is a translator, editor, and educator, working from German to English. Her translations include poetry, drama, and prose by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Werner Kofler, Siegfried Zielinski, Ernst Kapp, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and others. She is a founding editor of Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism and Translation.
My foundational worldview was shaped by a family of writers and translators. My parents, Mehrdad and Jamileh Samadi, were core figures in Iran’s modernist literary scene, co-founding the influential journal Jong-e Torfeh. Immersed from childhood in an environment shaped by intellectuals like Ebrahim Golestan and Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi, my academic path took an unexpected turn due to the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Separated from home following my father’s e...
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Lisa Kim will translate Baek Ohn-yu’s Next of Kin (working title) from Korean.
Lisa was born in South Korea and grew up in New Zealand. She has a bachelor’s degree in English and Mass Communication from the University of Canterbury as well as a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Teaching and Learning. She has 11 years of experience as a secondary English teacher, having taught in New Zealand, UK, and UAE. Having been raised across two cul...
Lya Shaffer is translating Chuanfen Chang’s 流氓王信福, with the working title Hooligan Wang Xinfu.
As a literary translator with roots in Taipei, Lya is committed to amplifying marginalized voices, particularly from Taiwan. Early observations of complex tensions straining across linguistic, sociocultural, political, and generational divides led Lya to study economics and international relations. In college, she discovered that le...
Madeleine Stratford is a poet, a literary translator, and an Associate Professor at Université du Québec en Outaouais. Her translations have been shortlisted for the Governor General award in Canada (2016, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024), as well as for the Young Readers Kirkus Prize in the US (2017). Her recent work includes Québécois classic Swallowed [L’Avalée des avalés] by Réjean Ducharme (Véhicule Press, 2020) ...
Mariana Ortigão is a Portuguese and Spanish to English literary translator based in New York. She studied Social Anthropology and Italian at the University of Kent and has spent her career working and living across different countries, languages, and cultures—from Portugal and Spain to Brazil, Mexico, Mozambique, and the United States.
This wandering has shaped how she approaches translation. Mariana came to literary translation in an unconven...
Mark Fried has translated twenty books of fiction and non-fiction from Spanish and French into English. His latest work is Ravaged Roads, a novel by the French writer Antonin Varenne (Open Borders Press, 2026).
Mark Herman is a literary translator, technical translator, chemical engineer, playwright, lyricist, musician, and actor. He writes the “Humor and Translation” column for the online edition of The Chronicle, The Journal of the American Translators Association. His English translations for the musical stage, done in collaboration with Ronnie Apter, have been successfully performed in the United States, Canada, England, and Scotland....
Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems—including A Film in Which I Play Everyone, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has published translations of Dante’s Inferno, illustrated by Henrik Drescher, Purgatorio, and Colonies of Para...
Michael Holtmann is the President of the Center for the Art of Translation (CAT), a San Francisco-based nonprofit that champions literary translation and the translators who bring underrepresented global writers to English-language readers. CAT builds a vibrant cross-cultural community through its award-winning publisher Two Lines Press, dynamic events that connect readers and translators, and the educational program Poetry Inside Out, which brings poet...
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