Amanda Sarasien

Amanda Sarasien is a writer and literary translator working from French and Portuguese into English. A recipient of a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, her work has appeared in The Common, The Massachusetts Review, West Branch, Chicago Review of Books, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. Her translation of Brazilian author Állex Leilla’s Springtime in the Bones was published in spring 2026. She is past co-chair of the PEN America Translation Committee and lives in Chicago.