2022 Day of Translation

Claudia Zoe Bedrick is the publisher, editor, and art director of Enchanted Lion Books, an award-winning, independent publisher based in Red Hook, Brooklyn. She graduated from Harvard/Radcliffe thirty-five years ago and spent a decade traveling around East & Central Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union while attending graduate school classes in the history of philosophy.

Verónica Gerber Bicecci is a visual artist who writes. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has published several books, including Conjunto vacío, which was awarded the 3rd International Aura Estrada Literature Prize. She also curated a selection of artworks from La Caixa Collection, exhibited in Whitechapel Gallery, London in 2020. She presently teaches in Mexico City on the SOMA art program, a space dedicated to cultural and artistic exchange.

Heather Green is the translator of Tristan Tzara’s Noontimes Won (Octopus Books, 2018) and Guide to the Heart Rail, an art-edition with images by artist Pete Schulte (Goodmorning Menagerie, 2017) and the author of No Other Rome (Akron Poetry Series, 2021). Her writings and translations have appeared in AGNI, Hopscotch Translation, the New Yorker, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Green currently serves as a reviewer for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Books and the Visual Editor for Asymptote. She is a poetry faculty member for the Cedar Crest Pan-European MFA and an Assistant Professor in the School of Art at George Mason.

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, and translator, with some thirty books to his name. His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish, and French) include fiction from Africa, Europe, and Latin America, and non-fiction by writers ranging from Portuguese Nobel laure- ate José Saramago to Brazilian footballer Pelé. He has both judged and won the Independent Foreign Fiction prize award; not, obviously, in the same year. A past chair of the UK Translators Association, he is currently national program director of the British Centre for Literary Translation.

Anton Hur is the author of Toward Eternity and the translator of various works of Korean literature into English including the National Book Award-finalist Cursed Bunny and the Dublin Literary Award-longlisted Love in the Big City. He resides in Seoul.

Born in Andhra Pradesh, India, Madhu H. Kaza is a writer, translator, artist, and educator based in New York City. She is a translator of contemporary Telugu women writers including Volga and Vimala. She recently guest edited a special feature for the Summer/Fall 2022 issue of Gulf Coast on writing from less translated languages, and she served as a 2021 juror for the National Book Awards in Translated Literature. She is the editor of Kitchen Table Translation, a volume that explores connections between translation and migration, and her work has appeared in The Yale Review, Gulf Coast, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Two Lines, Waxwing, Chimurenga, and more. She works as Assistant Dean of the Bard Microcolleges for the Bard Prison Initiative and also teaches in the MFA Writing program at Columbia University.

Julian Lucas is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His essays and criticism focus on the representation of history in art, literature, games, and music. His writing on contemporary culture has included profiles of artists and writers such as El Anatsui and Ishmael Reed as well as features on historical reenactment. He was a finalist for the 2020–2021 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

Julia Marshall is the founder and publisher of Gecko Press, a small-by-choice independent publisher of curiously good books for children since 2005. Gecko Press publishes a curated list of books from the best writers and illustrators in the world for ages 0 to 12 (sometimes infinity). Gecko Press books celebrate unsameness. They offer different—sometimes challenging, often funny, thoughtful, inquisitive—ways of seeing the world.

Lily Meyer is a translator and critic, and the author of the novel Short War. A contributing writer at The Atlantic, her translations include Claudia Ulloa Donoso’s story collections Little Bird and Ice for Martians. Her novel The End of Romance is forthcoming from Viking.

Syrian artist Abdulrahman Naanseh learned Arabic calligraphy with the support of his father, a self-taught calligrapher. Naanseh has excelled in this field with exhibitions at the Arneli Art Gallery during the Beit Misk Festival in Beirut, murals at Damascus University, solo exhibitions in Syria in 2002 and 2005, and national Arabic calligraphy competitions. Naanseh is an Artist Protection Fund Fellow and the 2022 Artist-in-Residence at George Mason University’s School of Art.

Alta L. Price runs a publishing consultancy specialized in literature and nonfiction texts on art, architecture, design, and culture. Alta’s translations from Italian and German include works by Giorgio Agamben, Dana Grigorcea, Alexander Kluge, Aldo Novarese, and Martin Mosebach. Alta’s latest books are Juli Zeh’s novel New Year—finalist for the 2022 PEN America Translation Prize as well as the Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize—and Mithu Sanyal’s novel Identitti.

Emma Raddatz is the Director of Elsewhere Editions and an Editor at Archipelago Books. She was selected to participate in editors’ exchange programs in Istanbul, Montreal, Seoul, and Bologna. She’s on the Independent Publishers Caucus Steering Committee and has spoken on translation panels with Columbia’s MFA program and the International School of Brooklyn. This fall, she’s honored to be working on books by authors from Turkey, Brazil, Finland, and Korea. She lives in Brooklyn.

Julia Sanches is a translator of Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. She has translated works by Susana Moreira Marques, Dolores Reyes, Daniel Galera, and Eva Baltasar, among others. Her shorter translations have appeared in various magazines and periodicals, including Words Without Borders, Granta, Tin House, and Guernica. A founding member of Cedilla & Co., Julia sits on the Council of the Authors Guild.

Rhian Sasseen lives in New York. She has written for The Baffler, BOMB, The Nation, The Yale Review, and more.

Corinne Segal is a senior editor at Literary Hub. Previously, she was a senior editor at PBS NewsHour Weekend and reported on arts and culture for PBS NewsHour.

Amy Stolls is the Director of Literary Arts at the National Endowment for the Arts, where she oversees the facilitation and review of thousands of applications annually from literary organizations and individuals, including translators of poetry and prose from other languages into English, and publishers and presenters of works in translation. She is the co-editor of the anthology The Art of Empathy: Celebrating Literature in Translation.

Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and Sinophone translator. Recent translations include Liu Xinwu’s The Wedding Party, which was shortlisted for the National Translation Award, as well as novels by Zhang Yueran, Shuang Xuetao, Lo Yi-Chin, Yan Ge and Yeng Pway Ngon. Their novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. Earlier this year they were the Princeton University Translator-in-Residence, and served on the jury of the International Booker Prize. Originally from Singapore, they live in Flushing, Queens.

Frank Wynne is an Irish literary translator, writer, and editor. His work has earned him the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He has twice been awarded both the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Premio Valle Inclán. His translation of The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter won the 2022 Dublin Literary Award.  He has edited two major anthologies, Found in Translation: 100 0f the finest short stories ever translated and QUEER: LGBT writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday. In 2022, he was chair of the jury for the International Booker Prize.