Translators Database
Hélène Cardona is a multilingual poet and actor. She authored the bilingual collections Life in Suspension and Dreaming My Animal Selves (both Salmon Poetry) and the translations The Abduction (Maram Al-Masri, White Pine Press), Birnam Wood (José Manuel Cardona, Salmon Poetry), Beyond Elsewhere (Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, White Pine Press), Walt Whitman’s Civil ...
Dr. Hewa S. Khalid, PhD in Kurdish language and culture, is an author, linguist and translator. My recent translation is mostly a team effort with Nasim Stone. Our latest translated book from Kurdish into English named ”Hero of the Kurdistan Republic: Memoir of a Revolutionary Captain” will be published by McFarland, and it is available for
Hongyu Jasmine Zhu 朱弘昱 is Editor-at-Large for China (opens in new tab) at Asymptote Journal and Translator Coordinator for SCBWI’s (Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators) International Central region. She studies English and Comparative Literature at Brown University. ...
Hoyoung Moon is a translator and writer working in Korean and English. Their translations include the poetry chapbook You Have Reached the End of the Future by Hwang Inchan (2021) as well as prose and poetry published in World Literature Today, The Offing, chogwa, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Hopkins Review, Azalea, Asymptote, and Korean Literature Now. Their essay collection on transness and translation, Never Mind, was published...
I translate from Estonian, Finnish as well as Latvian and Lithuanian. Previous translations include fiction (Andris Kuprišs, “Berlin” Open Letter Press, 2025) as well as prose poetry (Jaan Oks, “The Labours of Creation,” 2025) and fairy tales from the early 20th century.
Ibtihal Rida Mahmood is a Jordanian-American translator, essayist, and poet. Born in Kuwait in 1983 to Palestinian-Jordanian parents, she belongs to the generation of expats who resettled in Jordan in 1990 following the eruption of the Second Gulf War. While in Jordan, she completed her elementary and secondary education, then attended the University of Jordan, graduating in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in English literature. She moved to the United ...
Originally from Colorado, Ilse is a heritage speaker of both German and Spanish (Mexican) and was once a secondary French teacher. Ilse holds a B.A in Russian Studies and is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature (Translation Studies) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her translations have appeared in Encounters in translation and The Massachusetts Review.
Ilze Duarte was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil and was educated there and in the US, where she lives. She translates literary works by Brazilian writers, mostly women, into English. Ilze is a recipient of the 2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award, which included the publication of her translation of Marilia Arnaud’s short story collection The Book of Affects by Sundial House that same year. Her translations appear in Asymptote Jo...
Isabel is an emerging translator working from Spanish, French, and English. Her main interests are women from underrepresented backgrounds, such as her native Venezuela. She is particularly drawn to stories that challenge genre and form.
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...
Returning to the fold, having been a member of ALTA off and on since 2005, Jackie K. White earned her PhD in Creative Writing (poetry) from the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), with concentrations in Latinx/Latin American and Translation Studies and was a Professor of English, now Professor Emerita, at Lewis University. While at UIC, she completed, with Frances Aparicio, a translation of César Miguel Rondón’s The Book of S...
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...
Jacqueline Leung is a writer, translator, and art editor from Hong Kong. Her translation of Hon Lai Chu’s novel Mending Bodies (2025) is a winner of PEN Presents by the English PEN. Her work has appeared in HEAT, Wasafiri, Gulf Coast, Asymptote, Nashville Review, SAND Journal, the Asian Review of Books, Cha, Books from Taiwan, and elsewhere. She is a translation editor for The Offing. Her work has been recognized...
James Richie is a translator and an academic. He translates poetry and plays from Spanish, Italian, and Russian into English. His translations have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cream City Review, ANMLY, The Arkansas International, and Latin American Literature Today. His research on translation studies has appeared in Multimodality and Society, Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, and Culture, and Translation Review.
Jamie is a Korean to English translator whose literary work includes diaspora narratives, memoir, essays and oral history. She has published translations with PEN’s North Korean Writers in Exile project, the Korean American Writers Association, and the Jeju 4.3 oral history project. She also translates graphic novels and serialized fiction. She is based in the Netherlands.
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,
Jay Boss Rubin is a writer and literary translator from Swahili into English. His book-length translations include Rosa Mistika by Euphrase Kezilahabi (Yale University Press) and The Witness of Nina Mvungi and Other Stories by Esther Karin Mngodo (Hanging Loose Press). He also contributed to Two Lines Press’s 2023 collection, No Edges: Swahili Stories. He is currently translating the award-winning spy novel New Virus
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I am a fiction writer and essayist. I hold the master’s in creative writing, with distinction, from the University of Oxford. I have explored various topics in my stories and essays (opens in new tab), such as language and identity, fibroids, and orthodontics...
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.
Jeffrey Diteman, Ph.D. is a literary scholar and translator working from French and Spanish to English. In 2024, he received a Fleck Fellowship for residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, where he has also served as translation faculty. Diteman’s translations have been published by Harper’s Magazine, Le Monde, Latin American Literature Today, The Massachusetts Review, and McSweeney’s. His translat...
Jenna Tang is currently serving on ALTA’s Board as an At-Large member. She is a Taiwanese writer and translator. She translates from Chinese, Spanish, and French. Her works are published in McSweeney’s, Lit Hub, The Paris Review, Latin American Literature Today, Words Without Borders, AAWW, and more. She has published her novel translation of Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise, an iconic feminist title from Taiwan in 2024....
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...
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...
I write poetry and also translate poetry from the Spanish and the Italian. My translations of Francisco de Quevedo, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, José Eustasio Rivera, Octavio Paz, María Mercedes Carranza, and Alda Merini have been published in various journals. These include THINK, Plume, The Southern Review, The Los Angeles Review, and Another Chicago Magazine.
Jeremy Michael Reed is a multi-genre writer, editor, translator, and teacher. He’s the founder of accumulate/quiet and edits s w i f t s: a literary magazine, which is always open for translation submissions. You can find more information at swiftslitmag.com
I am a specialist in Slavic languages, and translate from Ukrainian, Polish and Russian into English. (I have a PhD in Slavic Linguistics from Harvard University.) In addition, I’m proficient in Spanish and French.
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...
Poet, critic, editor, and PhD student @ University of Cincinnati.
Hungarian-to-English translator, primarily of poetry, and also taking on select fiction. Author of the Bilingual anthology series published in Budapest, and “Enjambment” (Helikon, 2026).
Petőfi Literary Fund grant recipient (2020), winner of the EU Songbook lyrics translation contest (2021).
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 Beutler, a California-based translator, is a member of the American Literary Translators Association, American Translators Association, and Emerging Literary Translators’ Network in America. His passion for languages and literature is enriched by a diverse background as a former diplomat. With a rich history of work and study spanning four continents, including extensive experience in Spain and corporate interpreting, Jonathan holds graduate ...
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.
Jooyea Lee is a Chicago-based literary and media translator working between Korean and English.
Her literary translation portfolio includes numerous sample translations commissioned and funded by the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI Korea) and KL Management. She was named a finalist in the Charm Agency Translation Contest for her work on Bora Jin’s Memory Care.
Before transitioning to literary tran...
Joseph Ellison Brockway is a poet, collagist, translator, and educator interested in Latin American Surrealism and Puerto Rico. He holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies and Translation from The University of Texas at Dallas and teaches Spanish at CT State Community College Tunxis in Farmington, Connecticut. His translations include Island Mythical Coffer by Spanish surrealist Eugenio Fernández Granell and poems from Las mujeres no hablan así
Julia Laurel Mueller is an essayist, literary scholar and an emerging translator from French into English. She holds a PhD from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where she studied natural history and lyric poetry. Essays and reviews have appeared in, among others, ELH (English Literary History), Bright Wall/Dark Room, ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment), Literary Imagination, Diacritics, and ASA...
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-...
Julia Sanches is the translator of more than thirty works of literature from Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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...
Kate Deimling is a professional translator of French fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Her translations include The Story of the Marquis de Cressy by eighteenth-century author Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni; biographies of Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior; A Woman Like Her by best-selling novelist Marc Levy; and books on art and art history. Kate’s poetry translations have appeared in Best Literary Translations 2026, Poetry...
Kate Northrop is a native US-English speaker from Connecticut. Her travels brought her to the German-speaking part of Switzerland, where she has been living since 1994 with her Swiss husband and their two bilingual children. She has been working as a freelance translator for over 20 years, with focus on literary translation. She works with both authors and publishers, and has numerous published works. Member of the American Literary Translator’s Assoc...
Katherine E. Young is the author of the poetry collections Woman Drinking Absinthe and Day of the Border Guards (2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize finalist) and the editor of Written in Arlington. She has translated work by Anna Starobinets (memoir), Akram Aylisli (fiction), and numerous Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. Awards include the Granum Foundation Translation Prize, the Pushkin Hou...
Kathleen Maris Paltrineri is a poet and translator from Iowa. She is the recipient of a 2021-2022 Fulbright Fellowship to Norway and a Lois Roth Endowment Award for translation research. Her translation of Norwegian poet Kristin Berget’s and when the light comes it will be so fantastic is now available for pre-order from Curbstone Press, an imprint of Northwestern University Press. This translation was supported by a Stanley Graduate Award fo...
Kathryn Raver is an editor and translator currently based in France. Following her studies in French at the University of Iowa and Linguistics at Kings’ College London, she now spends her free time haunting the cafes and catacombs of Paris. She is particularly interested in LGBTQ+ stories and speculative fiction.
Kathy Saranpa works primarily in classic fiction with the occasional sortie into cozy crime and other more entertainment-oriented genres.
In addition to teaching Classical Philology (Ancient Greek) at the Justus Liebig University and Architectural History at the THM, both in Giessen, Germany, I’ve been a translator for the past 15 years, specializing in academic texts, and novels. ATA-certified, literary translation studies at LMU Munich.
Katrine Øgaard Jensen joined ALTA as Executive Director in April 2025.
Previously, she taught Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Columbia University, where she also served as Acting Director of Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC) from Fall 2019 through Fall 2020. She spent six years as Programs Manager at the Council for European Studies (CES) and later served as Executive Administrator and Project Manager at the Authors Guild. A p...
Spanish to English translator of fiction, creative nonfiction, and children’s/YA literature.
I’ve been translating professionally since 2011 while I was completing my double MA program at UNSW in Sydney, but most of my work has been commercial. I have one professional book translation to my credit: Korean Temple Cooking by Hoo Nam Seelmann and Veronique Hoegger. I’ve been working on a translation of Aurora Ljungstedt’s Hin ondes hus from Swedish, and I write about international and indie horror, sci-fi and fa...
Kelly Scott Franklin is a poet, translator, and professor of literature.
Kelsi Vanada joined ALTA as Program Manager in July 2018 and now works as Senior Program Director.
Kelsi is a poet and translator. Her first collection, Optional Saint, was published by Bench Editions (opens in new tab) in March 2025, and she has published a chapbook, Rare Earth. Her translations incl...
Pennsylvanian born translator from French/German to English. Currently completing a master’s degree in Literary Translation at Trinity College Dublin. Likes dark chocolate and rain.
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 ...
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