Literary Journal Editors’ Roundtable, Part 1

Come hear editors from such journals as Five Points (Megan Sexton), The Georgia Review (Gerald Maa), and Waxwing (Rajiv Mohabir) who will provide brief introductions to their journals, discuss the importance they place on translation for their magazines, share their personal tastes regarding what they like in a translation, and then answer questions from the audience.

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Moderator

Nancy Naomi Carlson, an ALTA Board member, has received two NEA literature translation grants. She has authored ten titles (six translated). A translation editor for Tupelo Quarterly, she was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award and was decorated by the French government with the French Academic Palms. www.nancynaomicarlson.com.

Presenters

Gerald Maa is a writer, translator, and editor based in Athens, GA. In 2010, he founded the arts non-profit the Asian American Literary Review with Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, where he served as Editor in Chief until becoming Editor of The Georgia Review in 2019. Rajiv Mohabir is the author of the poetry collections The Cowherd’s Son and The Taxidermist’s Cut, and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (Kaya Press 2019). He is Assistant Professor of Poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College and Translations Editor at Waxwing Journal. Megan Sexton is the editor of Five Points, directs the New York Field School, and teaches at Georgia State University. She received the Adrienne Bond Award for Poetry for her collection of poems, Swift Hour. Her poetry and nonfiction have been widely published in anthologies and journals, including Poetry and Ploughshares.