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Alex Brostoff
Alex Brostoff is a writer, translator, and educator. Their first book, a decolonial reframing of autotheory in the Américas, is under advance contract with Columbia University Press. They are co-editor of the collection Autotheories (The MIT Press, 2025) and have guest edited special journal issues on autotheory (2021) and trans literatures (2025). They’ve also co-translated a range of literary nonfiction and critical theory from Spanish and Portuguese, including Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak’s Ancestral Future (Polity, 2024) and Brazilian activist Antônio Bispo dos Santos’s The Earth Gives, The Earth Wants (Polity, 2026). They are Assistant Professor of English and Women’s and... -
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Neera Sohoni
Neera Kuckreja Sohoni has Masters Degrees in History (Delhi University) and Public Administration (Syracuse University), and a PhD in Economics from Pune University. She was an affiliated research scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Sohoni is the author of several books including Child in India, Women Behind Bars, A People in Action, Sketches from My Past (a translation of original stories in Hindi by Mahadevi Varma), The Burden of Girlhood: A Global Inquiry into the Status of Girls, as well as two chapters in Women in the Third World: An Encyclopedia on Women... -
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Parisa Saranj
Parisa Saranj is a writer and Persian translator. Her literary translations have appeared in various print and online journals, including Los Angeles Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Faultline, Asymptote, and Two Lines. She has also translated two books, Empty and Me: A Tale of Loss and Friendship (Lee & Low, 2023) by Azam Mahdavi and Women, Life, Freedom: Our Fight for Human Rights and Equality in Iran (Cornell University Press, 2023) by Nasrin Sotoudeh and two documentaries, Nasrin (2020) and Sansur (2023), on women’s rights in Iran.... -
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Sieglinde Lug
Sieglinde Lug taught Comparative Literature, German, and Women’s Studies at the University of Denver from 1978 to 2005. She has published works ranging from medieval poetry to contemporary women writers. (Photo credit: Learning Ally)... -
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Marilyn Booth
...2015); edited collections include Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces (2010) and a Journal of Women’s History special issue, ‘Women’s autobiography in the Middle East and South Asia’ (2013). She also writes on vernacular Arabic writing, early Arabic journalism, and practices and politics of literary translation. She has translated numerous novels, short story collections and memoirs from the Arabic, most recently The Penguin’s Song by Lebanese novelist Hassan Daoud (City Lights Books, 2015), and No Road to Paradise, also by Daoud (American University in Cairo Press, 2017), winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal. (Photo credit: Courtesy of the author)... -
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Sonia P. Ticas
Sonia Ticas is Associate Professor of Spanish and Co-Chair of Latin American Studies at Linfield College in Oregon. A native of El Salvador, her published work focuses on the history of women’s suffrage in the region and the study of women’s literature from the first half of the twentieth century. She collaborated with translator Keith Ekiss on translating Costa Rican poet Eunice Odio’s The Fire’s Journey.... -
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Andrée Collier Záleská
Andrée Collier Záleská is a Czech translator focusing on women writers. She earned an MA in Russian and East European Studies from Harvard University, and is currently translating the work of Czech women writers of the 1968 generation. Her work has been published in Partisan Review, Chicago Review, and Salt Hill, among others; and in anthologies from Catbird Press and MIT Press. (Photo credit: courtesy of Bountiful Brookline)... -
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Mireille Gansel
...both her translations of German and Vietnamese poets, and for some of her seven books of poetry. Her lyrical memoir, Translation as Transhumance—published in an English translation by Ros Schwartz—has contributed significantly to the field of translation studies. She received the Veu Lliure 2021 Prize from the Catalan PEN. In 2018, Mireille became the Laureate of the Great Prize of Translation Etienne Dolet-Sorbonne Université. Other awards include the Khoury-Ghata poetry prize, the Gérald de Nerval translation prize, an English PEN Award, and a French Voices Award. Soul House (World Poetry, 2023) is her first book of poetry in English translation.... -
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Allison Markin Powell
Allison Markin Powell is a literary translator, editor, and publishing consultant. She received the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami and a Pushcart Prize for “My Ass” by Kanako Nishi. Her other translations and co-translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Shiori Ito, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and Kaoru Takamura....