Translators Database
Ted Dodson is the author of An Orange (Pioneer Works / Wonder, 2021) and co-translator of Two Poems by Jaime Saenz (Action Books, 2026). He is a contributing editor for BOMB, an editor-at-large for Futurepoem, and a former editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter.
Teresa Villa-Ignacio’s translations include Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics (Stanford University Press 2016), Hocine Tandjaoui’s Clamor (Litmus 2021), and Roland Barthes’ The Eiffel Tower (Seuil 2024). The recipient of an NEA Literary Translation Fellows Award and an Albertine Translation Fund Grant, she is also a literary scholar whose research investigates the role...
Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Walter Benjamin, Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Handke, and Montaigne. A Guggenheim, NEA and Berlin Prize Fellow, she was awarded the 2017 PEN Award for Translation. She is an Advisory Editor for The Hudson Review and curator of the Festival Neue Literature, New York City’s only German language literature festival. www.tesslewis.org
Thalatha Gunasekara will translate Surekha Samarasena’s Short Story collection Estrogen from Sinhalese.
Thalatha Gunasekara grew up in a rural village in Sri Lanka, where her early education took place in a small local school. It was there that her love for the Sinhala language was shaped, despite the absence of formal English instruction. Her love for English was nurtured by her family, even though they themselves had limit...
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 F...
Thuy Dinh is a bilingual critic, literary translator, coeditor of the Vietnamese webzine Da Màu, and editor-at-large at Asymptote Journal. She’s also a freelance book critic at NPR Books. Her essays and poetry translations have appeared in Asymptote, Manoa, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, among others.
Tiffany Troy is the author of Dominus (BlazeVOX [books]). She is Managing Editor at Tupelo Quarterly, Associate Editor of Tupelo Press, Book Review Co-Editor at The Los Angeles Review, Assistant Poetry Editor at Asymptote, and Co-Editor of Matter.
Ms. Troy’s literary criticism, translation, and creative writing are published or forthcoming in literary journals like The Adroit Journal, Am...
Schaffner Press is an independent publishing company based in Tucson, AZ which focuses on books of high literary quality and topics of social concern. Publisher Tim Schaffner, who founded SP in 2001, has a special interest in challenging works of contemporary fiction and non-fiction from cultures and languages other than English. Both he and senior editor Sean Murphy strive to maintain their mission statement to bring new works of universal social conce...
Tim Tim Cheng is translating Ka Yee Lee’s Exposure from Chinese.
Tim Tim Cheng (she/they) is the author of The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her pamphlet, Tapping At Glass (Verve, 2023), was shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and named one of The Poetry Society’s Books of the Year. She co-edited Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve,...
TIMOTHY GREGORY is an Arabic to English translator from Seattle, Washington. For more than twenty- five years, he has worked as a translator in both the public and the private sectors. His passion as a reader of novels of all kinds led him to pursue the shift to translating literature, leading to an MA in translation from the University of Illinois in 2018. Translated works include the Warriors and Warlocks trilogy by Dr. Monther Alkabbani, published by...
Todd Fredson is a poet, a critic, and a translator of Afro-francophone and West African literature. He is the author of two poetry collections, The Crucifix-Blocks (Tebot Bach, 2012), which won the Patricia Bibby First Book Award, and Century Worm (New Issues Press, 2018).
He has made French to English translations of two books by Ivorian poet Josué Guébo, My country, tonight (Action Books, 2016) and Think o...
Chinese-to-English translator. Debut book ADRIFT IN THE SOUTH by Xiao Hai out with Granta Magazine Editions. Currently translating Taiwanese novelist Tong Wei-Ger, Taiwanese poet/writer Liu Chen-Chun, and Chinese short story writer Ban Yu. Work published in Granta, The Wall Street Journal, The Georgia Review, The Offing, and elsewhere. Winner of the Granum Translation Prize 2024.
Troy Wellington Smith received his PhD in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley in 2023. He has translated Thomasine Gyllembourg’s “An Everyday Story” (2019) and her Two Ages: A Novella (Brill 2026).
Umair Kazi is currently serving on ALTA’s Board as Non-Voting Advisory Director. He is a lawyer, writer, and translator from Urdu. He currently serves as the Director of Policy & Advocacy for the Authors Guild, and is a principal drafter of the Authors Guild’s Literary Translation Model Contract and Commentary. His translations of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz have appeared in Circumference, Brooklyn Rail’s In Translatio...
Urayoán Noel is the translator of Nicole Cecilia Delgado’s adjacent islands (Ugly Duckling/DoubleCross/La Impresora) and Wingston González’s no budu please (Ugly Duckling) and What will I do with my place in the sky (Toronto Biennial of Art), and the editor and translator of Pablo de Rokha’s Architecture of Dispersed Lif...
Well established translator of English-Persian Film-related literature in Iran, I have also translated fiction (short stories as well as novels). Translations of Persian-English material is my next step, with a manuscript (a novel) ready for publication, by a well-known Iranian author.
Veronica is an international rights specialist, managing world domination for creators in all languages, helping them conquer new markets and expand their brand worldwide, while building connections across linguistic and cultural borders. With over a decade of experience in the publishing industry specializing in translation and subsidiary rights licensing on both the trade publisher and agency side, Veronica has managed global campaigns for New York Ti...
Viswanathan (Visu) Mahalingam is a writer and translator. His stories, book reviews, literary criticism, and translations have appeared in print and online publications including Kaalam, Syamantakam, Neeli, Aroo, Solvanam, and Kizhakku Today.
His first book in Tamil, Iru Kadal Oru Nilam (இரு கடல் ஒரு நிலம்), a travelogue, was published by Vishnupuram...
Wendy Call (she/ella) is author, co-editor, or translator of nine books, including the annual anthology she co-founded, Best Literary Translations. Her focus as a translator is bilingual works by Indigenous / First Nations women authors in Mexico and elsewhere in Abya Yala. A recent Fulbright Scholar to Colombia and Translator in Residence at the University of Iowa, she teaches creative nonfiction in the Rainier Writing Worksh...
Wendeline A. Hardenberg first became curious about translation as an undergrad at Smith College, where she ultimately translated part of a novel from French as a portion of her Honors Thesis in Comparative Literature. After a dual Masters degree in Comparative Literature (with a focus on translation) and Library Science at Indiana University-Bloomington, she has gone on to a dual career as a librarian and a translator. Her translations have been publish...
Will Evans is the founder and publisher of Deep Vellum, a non-profit publishing house based in Dallas, Texas, specializing in translated literature. Established in 2013, Deep Vellum has become the largest publisher of literature in translation in the US, aiming to foster transnational dialogue by publishing international writers, often from underrepresented languages, countries, styles, and traditions.
In 2020, Deep Vellum acquired Dalkey Archive...
I’m a Spanish-to-English translator and book editor focusing on translated literature. My work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, ANMLY, Two Lines, Latin American Literature Today, Strange Horizons, and the Massachusetts Review.
I have collaborated with writers from Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, and Spain. My co-translation (with Samantha Schnee) of Argentine...
I have been translating books from French to English since the 1990s, starting with Anka Muhlstein’s Cavelier de La Salle, for Arcade. Among my other translations are four novels by Jean-Christophe Rufin, academician and winner of the Prix Goncourt; Machiavelli, by Patrick Boucheron; Constellation, by Adrien Bosc; and The Wizard of the Kremlin, by Giuliano da Empoli. I am currently translating a novel by the Haitian...
Born in 1963 in Jiangsu Province, China, he holds a PhD in English Literature and retired from his English teaching at Nanjing Agricultural University. Has taught a wide array of graduate and undergraduate courses and published extensively in his research field. While a graduate student at the Nanjing University-Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and American Studies, he co-translated Pearl Buck’s biography of her father The Fighting Ange...
Yaerim Gen Kwon is translating Lee Seung-u’s novel In the Land of the Living (Working Title) from Korean.
Yaerim Gen Kwon is a prose writer and literary translator from Seoul, South Korea. Her writing appears in Cream City Review, Reed Magazine, Al Jazeera, and elsewhere. She currently resides in Chicago, Illinois, where she is a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois Chicago. She hol...
I translate plays, popular science and novels.
Yvette Neisser is an award-winning poet, Spanish translator, and founder of the DC-Area Literary Translators Network (DC-ALT). Her co-translation of María Teresa Ogliastri’s “From the Diary of Madame Mao” won the Carnegie Mellon University Press Translation Prize and is forthcoming in 2026. Previous translations include “South Pole/Polo Sur” by María Teresa Ogliastri and “Difficult Beauty: Selected Poems” by Luis Alberto Ambroggio. Her p...
I have been studying Japanese for the last five years with a healthy interest in how the language is localized. Growing up, I was exposed to a lot of games and novels from Japan and quickly found an appreciation for the effort required to translate them. Over the past few years I have dabbled in working on translations of videos, manga, and most recently games. Having passed N1 of the JLPT last winter, I plan to shift my focus from studying Japanese to ...
Zoë Perry’s translations of contemporary Brazilian literature have appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Granta, n+1, The New York Times, Astra, The White Review and elsewhere. Her translation of “My Good Friend” by Juliana Leite, published in The Paris Review, was awarded a National Magazine Award for Fiction, and was selected by Amor Towles for a 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction....
I’m a literary translator specializing in fantasy and mystery fiction, translating from Japanese to English. As of June 2026, I have translated eight light novel volumes for Yen Press and am currently working on my ninth.
I have a Master of Translation Studies (Japanese) with Distinction from the the University of Western Australia, where I was valedictorian. (You can watch my valedictory speech
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