Write the World 2025: Workshop Talk Shop

Moderator: Denise Kripper

Panelists: Elizabeth Lowe, Cecilia Rossi, Regina Galasso

Denise Kripper is a bilingual literary translator and a translation studies scholar. She is the translation editor at Latin American Literature Today and the author of Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature. Her latest translation is Salt, by Argentine author Adriana Riva (Veliz Books, 2024).

Elizabeth Lowe translates Lusophone fiction from Brazil, Portugal, and Africa. She is a faculty member in the NYU Master’s program in Translation and Interpreting, and has conducted literary translation workshops for Kenyon College, ALTA, and the University of Illinois. Her memoir, Translating from the Portuguese: A Life Translated, is forthcoming by Tagus Press.

Cecilia Rossi is Professor of Literary Translation and convenor of the MA in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia where she also works for British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT). Her translation The Last Innocence and The Lost Adventures (Alejandra Pizarnik) (Ugly Duckling Presse) was shortlisted for the National Translation Awards for Poetry (ALTA) in 2020.

Regina Galasso is an author, translator, educator, and language access leader. She is the co-founder and co-editor of the book series TRANSLATED BY___ for Bloomsbury Academic. She is a board member of the Massachusetts Center for the Book and an advisory board member for the Planet Word Museum. She is Director of the Edwin C. Gentzler Translation Center and Associate Professor at UMass Amherst.

Resources/Links Mentioned:

ALTA Multilingual workshops this summer
UMass Translation Center
BCLT
BCLT YouTube page
National Centre for Writing
BCLT Summer School
NYTimes Article on AI Translation