Contracts and Rights: Your Questions Answered

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Panelists

Umair Kazi is the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Authors Guild, and a writer and translator from Urdu. He studied law at the University of Iowa and received his MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. His translations have appeared in the Commonwealth Writers Magazine, Circumference, Brooklyn Rail’s In Translation, Inventory, and Pleiades. Allison Markin Powell received the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami. She was the co-organizer and co-host of the Translating the Future conference and is a founding member of the translator collectives Cedilla & Co. and Strong Women, Soft Power. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Julia Sanches is the author of more than a dozen translations from Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan into English. She has received support for her work from the PEN Heim, PEN Translates, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Julia sits on the Council of the Authors Guild, where she advocates for fairer terms for literary translators.