Translators Database
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...
Dani James is a native New Yorker who grew up in Belgium, speaking French, Flemish, and English. Her translation of Return to the Place I Never Left (opens in new tab), a Holocaust survival memoir by Tobias Schiff, won a 2025 National Jewish Book Award, a 2026 IPPY Awards Bronze Medal, and is a WSU Press bestselling...
Daniel Byronson’s translations have been published in the Massachusetts Review and Hayden’s Ferry Review. He has published reviews in Minneapolis’s Rain Taxi Review of Books. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Currently enrolled in the Master’s program in Spanish and Latin American Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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 ...
David M. Smith is a translator of Norwegian fiction. His published and forthcoming translations include The Red Handler by Johan Harstad (Open Letter), The Calf by Leif Høghaug (Fum d’Estampa), The Mystery of What Befell in the Ditch by Thure Erik Lund (And Other Stories), and The Wild Rider: Selected Stories by Tarjei Vesaas (Archipelago). He has an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa and is a ...
Interested in German and Dutch to English fiction and nonfiction projects.
Denise Kripper is a bilingual literary translator (Spanish/English) and a translation studies scholar. She is Associate Professor of Spanish at Lake Forest College and Translation Editor at Latin American Literature Today. She wrote Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature (2023) and coedited The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation (2023). Born and raised in Argenti...
I translate contemporary Turkish poetry and my translations have received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Banff International Literary Translators Centre, and the British Centre for Literary Translation. I wrote my doctoral dissertation (at WashU) on the translators of Nâzım Hikmet, and am currently wrapping up a translation of Yücel Kayıran’s magnum opus, Passage to Efsus.
Diana Arterian has been a Poetry Editor at Noemi Press since 2014, and became an ALTA member and attendee around the same time. The authors she has edited have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Lambda Literary Awards, and regional book awards, among other accolades.
She holds a PhD in Literatur...
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.
I write metrical verse translations of Latin and ancient Greek poetry and drama, especially the plays of Euripides.
Dina Famin, an alum of Boston University’s MFA in Literary Translation program, is currently pursuing her PhD in Slavic Studies at Brown University. She translates from Russian to English, with a particular interest in Soviet children’s literature, and has an ongoing project translating Russian Symbolist Zinaida Gippius’s 1925 memoir, Living Faces. Her unpublished translation of Veniamin Kaverin’s Many Good People and One Who Envies...
Manin’s work was included in the inaugural “Best Literary Translations” anthology (Deep Vellum, 2024) and won the 2016 Compass Award. His book-length translations into Russian include Ted Hughes’ “Crow” (Jaromír Hladík Press, 2020) and Allen Ginsberg’s “The Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems” (Podpisnie Izdaniya, 2021).
Dmitri’s Russian-to-English translations have been published in journals, in Maria Stepanova’s ...
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.
Dorottya Mária Cseresnyés is translator from Hungary, translating fiction and poetry between Hungarian and English. In 2024, she was chosen as a Travel Fellow for ALTA’s annual conference. Her works have appeared in Asymptote, Hungarian Literature Online, 1749 and more. She considers translating women writers and indigenous authors her primary mission.
My books on Ottoman cultural history include translated manuscripts, poetry, and tombstones from Ottoman Turkish.
In 2019 I turned to translating works of fiction from Ottoman literature, in particular the works of Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil. My translation of his celebrated novel Aşk-ı Memnu will be published in 2027 by Penguin Classics under the title The House on the Bosphorus.
I am a native Hungarian.
Fluent in German.
My Alma Mater is the U. Wien, Austria; where I studied translation.
I worked at their State Dept.’s Immigration Office, at a refugee camp.
I translated an English book into Hungarian for an American publishing co.
I edited and proofread for a Hungarian publishing company.
I volunteer interpreted at Churches and the Portland (Oregon) Marathon – where I live...
Eirill Alvilde Falck is an award-winning Norwegian-American writer and translator whose translations have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Poetry Magazine, and the anthology Best Literary Translations.
She received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she was later a Zell Fellow. She was a 2020-2022 Iowa Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa, where she received the Stanley Award...
Elaine Kennedy is a Canadian translator, writer and editor. She has translated Quebec, Ontarian, Afghan and Rom authors from French to English. Her work has won the 3Macs carte blanche Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards, and the International Book Awards in the Multicultural Fiction category.
I’m a film and literary translator from Los Angeles. For four decades I provided the Spanish subtitles for the Hollywood Studios of hundreds of movies, from Hamlet to Birdman. My focus now is literary translation. My translation of Miguel de Unamuno’s novel Niebla was published by Northwestern University Press in 2017. Poetry translations have appeared in The Harvard Review, Asymptote, Poetry International and other journals. My translation...
Eléna Rivera is a poet and translator who was born in Mexico City and spent her formative years in Paris. Her translation of Bernard Noël’s The Rest of the Voyage (Graywolf, 2011) received the Robert Fagles Translation Prize, and she is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Translation. She also translated Isabelle Garron’s Body Was (Litmus Press, 2021) and Isabelle Baladine Ho...
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...
Elettra Pauletto is a writer and translator of French and Italian literature into English. Her recent translated books include “The Letter Carrier,” by Francesca Giannone (Crown), which was a Barnes and Noble Book Club pick for July 2025, and “Volga Blues: A Journey Into the Heart of Russia,” by Marzio Mian (W.W. Norton & Company).
Elisabeth Jaquette is currently serving as Senior Consultant. She served as Executive Director at ALTA from 2017 to 2024.
She is also a translator from Arabic; her translation of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli was a finalist for the National Book Awards and longlisted for the Booker International Prize. Other translations include Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun, The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz, and The Frigh...
Elizabeth Blood is a native speaker of US English with a Ph.D. in French literature specializing in French to English translation of literary, historical, and academic works. She has translated numerous French historical true crime books (creative nonfiction), French Canadian histories and folktales, and is the author of two textbooks for French learners. She teaches French and translation at Salem State University (MA).
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.
Elizabeth Janik specializes in the translation of historical monographs and other scholarly texts from German into English. Her translation of Marie-Janine Calic’s The Great Cauldron (opens in new tab) was named to the shortlist for the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize in 2020. Her most recent t...
Elizabeth Lowe translates fiction from Spanish and Portuguese. She is a pioneer in translation education, and has held professorial positions in major universities where she founded translation studies programs. Currently she is on the faculty of New York University’s Master’s in Translation and Interpreting. Elizabeth is the recipient of the NEA Literary Translation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanitie...
A translator of fiction and non-fiction from Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian into English since the 1980s. Author of Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug of War. Recipient of the AATSEEL prize for Best Translation from a Slavic Language (1996) for David Albahari’s Word Are Something Else; the National Translation Award (2006) for Albahari’s Götz and Mayer; the Mary Zirin...
Ellen Mayock translates works of fiction and nonfiction from Spanish to English. She taught her university’s first-ever Advanced Translation course and participated in and oversaw thousands of pages of community translation projects (English-Spanish and Spanish-English). She is currently translating Julia Otxoa’s 2021 Tos de perro (Barking Cough), a poignant collection of stories based on the author’s childhood during...
Emily is a United States-based translator of fiction and poetry from English to Korean. In 2019 she completed the two-year regular course at the Korean Literary Translation Institute, and since then has been translating poetry and short fiction for publication in a variety of places.
Her works include poems by Lee Jenny in Puerto del Sol (2019), as well as poems by Ra Heeduk in Asymptote Blog (2021) and New England Rev...
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...
Emma George is a translator of Russian poetry and prose. She has translated work by Dmitry Bobyshev (Exchanges), Dmitry Bykov, Ivan Stavissky, and Demyan Kudryavtsev (The Slavic and East European Journal), and Andrei Sen-Senkov’s poetry collection Cezanne Loved Kazakh Apples (recently published in excerpted form by UGAR.kz). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton U...
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...
Since I took Rosanna Warren’s translation seminar in grad school decades ago (and shared 2nd place in the Robert Fitzgerald Translation Prize) , I have been smitten with translation. Then translating only German, I’ve since added Italian and am working on Rilke and Montale amids writing my own poetry.
Erín Moure is a Canadian poet, translator, and essayist who writes in English. Often hybrid in form, her books explore the possibility of queer citizenship as well as the potentialities of language/s and translation She has published more than 18 books of poetry and more than 25 books of poetry by others, translated from Galician, Spanish, French, and Portuguese (including Nicole Brossard, Andrés Ajens, Chantal Neveu, Rosalia de Castro, Chus Pato, and...
Erin Twohig is a translator and an Associate Professor at Georgetown University, where she teaches courses on the French language and francophone literatures. She is the author of Contesting the Classroom: Reimagining Education in Moroccan and Algerian Literatures with Liverpool University Press, as well as scholarly articles in journals including French Forum, Expressions Maghrébines and The Journal of Middle East Women...
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...
Literary translator and localization specialist EN>IT since 2019, helping authors adapt their work for the Italian market with a focus on narrative voice, cultural nuance, reader engagement, fiction localization, and editorial adaptation.
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Fion Tse (she/they) is a translator working between English and Chinese. She is a Visiting Writer (Translation) at the University of Iowa.
Fion holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was also co-Editor-in-Chief of Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation. Her work has been published in ArtAsiaPacific, Asymptote, Full Stop, World Literature Today, and...
Francesca Hyatt is a German-American writer, translator and lecturer at CUNY-Queens College. Her work focuses on ecology, migration and belonging. She’s the 2021 winner of the Birdhouse Prize for her chapbook Forestwish, published by Ghostbird Press, and the co-editor of the anthology Eating Alone: Essays & Reflections, 2023. She is the co-founder and editor of clotheslines, a literary journal and micro-...
Frank L. Vigoda is the pen name for the Polish to English translation partnership of Ann Frenkel and Gwido Zlatkes. Their most recent translating projects include collaboration with ariel rosé on their volume
The Sea at Night Is a Muscle of the Heart, a volume of selected poetry by Roman Kaźmierski, The River of Missing Words, as well as the English rendition of a childrens’ book under working title Samizdat in the...
Gabriella Page-Fort is executive editor at HarperOne, publishing nonfiction and fiction with an emphasis on works in translation, including international bestsellers Maktub by Paulo Coelho (in Margaret Jull Costa’s translation) and Life by Pope Francis (tr Aubrey Botsford), and 12th-century mystic poet Attar (ed & tr by Sholeh Wolpe). As editorial director of Amazon Crossing, she published New York Times bestsellers by a...
Gary Duff Arredondo is a Chilean-American writer, editor, and emerging literary translator working from Spanish into English, with a particular focus on Chilean poetry, memory, exile, and historical inheritance. His journalism and cultural writing have appeared in Newsday, HuffPost, Whitewall, Maxim, Modern Luxury, and the Long Island Press. His hybrid documentary manuscript, Mijo: A Genealogy of...
2026 Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellow
The judges were uniformly taken with Gayathri Sarvepalli’s ability to communicate sharp and exuberant registers of satirical humor, simultaneously entertaining us with the world in the Telugu short story and delighting us to the point that we forgot we were reading a work in progress.
When Gayathri Sarvepalli...
Geoffrey Brock is the author of three books of poems, the editor of The FSG Book of 20th-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of a dozen books of poetry, prose, and comics, including Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Allegria (Archipelago, 2020), which received ALTA’s National Translation Award in poetry. He has also received translation awards from the NEA, the MLA, the PEN Center USA, the Academy of American Poets, Poetry magaz...
George Henson is a translator of contemporary Latin American prose. He is the author of eleven book-length translations, including works by Cervantes laureates Sergio Pitol and Elena Poniatowska. His translations have appeared variously in World Literature Today, Latin American Literature Today, Southwest Review, Granta, and Words Without Borders, and include works by authors such as Alberto Chimal, Luis Jorge Boone, Leonardo Padura, C...
Gina Abelkop is translating a book of poems by a Swedish poet.
Gina Abelkop is a writer and Swedish-English translator living in Athens, GA. She is the author of two poetry collections, I Eat Cannibals (co.im.press 2014) and Darling Beastlettes (Apostrophe Books 2012), and her work has appeared in the anthologies Electric Gurlesque, The Weird Sister Collection, The &Now Awards, and elsewhere. She i...
Grace En-Yi Ting is working on a hybrid translation from both Japanese and Chinese versions of a queer Taiwanese author’s book.
With a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Yale University, Grace En-Yi Ting 丁恩宜 グレイス・エンイー・ティンfocuses on queer, feminist, and crip approaches to analyzing texts and popular culture. Their academic beginnings involved a dream to become a literary translator; recently, she hopes to circle ba...
Graham Liddell is a writer, translator, and scholar of modern migration literature. A recent recipient of a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, he wrote a dissertation on the ways that contemporary Arab and Afghan migration experiences are narrated in both published literature and the asylum process. His current position is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Hope College. In 2022, he edited a book-length issue of the l...
G. J. Racz is Professor of Liberal Arts at LIU Brooklyn, review editor for Translation Review, and a past president of ALTA. He translates Spanish-language poetry and drama with a specialization in meter and rhyme.
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
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...
The judges note that Hammad Rind adeptly navigates the challenges of articulating class in deeply personal and meditative fiction, capturing the cultural texture of the source language and the story’s atmosphere.
Hammad Rind is a writer, translator, and researcher based in Cardiff. He works across Urdu, Panjabi, Welsh, Persian, Arabic, and English, with particular...
Originally from Mississippi, Hannah V Warren is a poet, translator, and scholar living between Birmingham, AL, and Gambier, OH, where she works at Kenyon College as the Kenyon Review Fellow. Along with authoring the poetry collections Hurricane Pastoral (Sundress 2027) and Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales (Sundress 2024), she has received support from Fulbright-Germany, the PEN/Heim Translation Grant, Bread Loaf, and the Foundatio...
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...
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