2021 ALTA Mentorship Program Reading (Free and open to the public)

In an event hosted by ALTA Board member Sean Bye, the eight 2021 mentees will read from the projects they have worked on this year with their mentors, followed by audience Q&A.

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2021 Mentees

Ania Aizman is a postdoctoral fellow at the Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor in the University of Michigan Slavic Department. Ania’s translations of contemporary Russian plays have appeared in PAJ: A Journal of Performing Arts and in New Russian Drama: An Anthology (Columbia University Press, 2019). She has written for academic and popular publications on subjects such as Soviet children’s poems, the Russian avantgarde, Russian theater, and contemporary performance art. This work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Russian Review, and The Theater Times, among other publications. Currently, Ania is writing a book about how the Russian anarchist movement has influenced literature and the arts from the time of Leo Tolstoy until today. Alex Braslavsky is a translator and scholar of Polish and Russian poetry, as well as a poet. She is a first-year PhD student in the Harvard Slavic Department and writes scholarship through a comparative poetics lens. Her translations have appeared in Asymptote and Exchanges. She is also working on her first poetry collection, Answering Machine. Jein Han is a freelance translator based in Seoul. With the support of ALTA’s Mentorship program, she will work on a translation of Lee Min-ha’s Phantom Limbs. Jack Hargreaves is a translator from East Yorkshire. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, LitHub, Asymptote, adda and LARB China Channel. Recent translations include, with Yan Yan, Li Juan’s Winter Pasture and Chai Jing’s Seeing, Shen Dacheng’s Novelist in the Attic, A History of Chinese Philosophical Thought, and Buddhism and Buddhology. Ho Zhi Hui is a Singaporean translator, writer, and teacher. In 2021, she completed her MA in Translation & Interpretation at Nanyang Technological University and is currently working on a short-story collection by Singaporean writer Yuan Fei, entitled Neighbour’s Luck. She is particularly interested in how translation and language serve as vectors of power, especially in multilingual nations. Serin Lee is a translator and poet from Seoul, South Korea. She is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago, and her interests include migration writing, multilingualism, film, and everything that occurs at the intersection of image and text. lucy scott is a translator focusing on Afro-Dutch literature. For her first book-length translation project, Lucy has been working on the breakthrough novel Over de gekte van een vrouw (On a woman’s madness) from Afro-Surinamese writer Astrid Roemer, the 2021 winner of the prestigious Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren (Dutch Literature Prize). Jenna Tang is a Taiwanese literary translator based in New York. She translates from Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. Her translations are published in Restless Books’ anthology And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again, Latin American Literature Today, and elsewhere. She is one of the selected translators for the 2021 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program with a focus on Taiwanese prose.