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Supporters & Partners

The Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) is grateful for the foundations, cultural agencies, and partner organizations that support our work and collaborate with us to advance equity for writers and literary translators, expanding access to global voices for U.S. readers of English. Together, we amplify world literature, increase access to resources for literary translators, inspire cross-cultural dialogue, and create meaningful opportunities for connections among writers, literary translators, readers, and educators. CAT partners and supporters include:

Institutional Supporters

California Community Foundation
California Office of Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA)
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
Crescent Porter Hale Foundation
Germanacos Foundation
Irene S. Scully Family Foundation
Poets & Writers, Inc.
Rogers Family Foundation
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund
The Zellerbach Family Foundation

International Cultural Agencies

Acción Cultural Española
Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media
Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States
Danish Arts Fund
Dutch Foundation for Literature
Finnish Literature Exchange (FILI)
French Voices
Goethe Institut
Institut Ramon Llull
Literature Translation Institute of Korea (KLTI)
Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD)
Ministry of Culture of Brazil
National Library Foundation of Brazil (FBN)
Portugal Ministry of Culture, Director General of Books, Archives, and Libraries (DGLAB)
ProHelvetia Swiss Arts Council
Swedish Arts Council

Arts & Culture Partners

Brava Theater – San Francisco, CA
Cuentero Productions – Oakland, CA
Edge on the Square – San Francisco, CA
Goethe Institut – San Francisco, CA
Institut Ramon Llull – Spain
Italian Cultural Institute – San Francisco, CA
Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD) – San Francisco, CA
Poets & Writers, Inc.
San Francisco Center for the Book
Spain Arts & Culture
Villa Albertine – San Francisco, CA
The Writer’s Grotto – San Francisco, CA

Event Partners

The American Library in Paris
Bay Area Book Festival – Berkeley, CA
Brookline Booksmith Translation Literature Series – Brookline, MA
Brooklyn Book Festival – Brooklyn, NY
The Center for Fiction – Brooklyn, NY
City of Asylum – Pittsburgh, PA
LITLIT – Los Angeles, CA
Litquake Literary Festival – San Francisco, CA
The London Library
Mechanics’ Institute Library – San Francisco, CA
Portland Book Festival
The Ruby – San Francisco, CA
Texas Book Festival

Bookstore/Bookseller Partners

Books Are Magic – Brooklyn, NY
Brazos Bookstore – Houston, TX
City Lights Bookstore – San Francisco, CA
Community Bookstore – Brooklyn, NY
East Bay Booksellers – Oakland, CA
Elliott Bay Books – Seattle, WA
Green Apple Books – San Francisco, CA
Literati Bookstore – Ann Arbor, MI
Loyalty Books – Washington, DC
Pilsen Community Books – Chicago, IL
Point Reyes Books – Point Reyes Station, CA
Powell’s Books – Portland, OR

Publishing & Press Partners

Action Books – Notre Dame, IN
Archipelago Books – Brooklyn, NY
Bakwa Books – Cameroon
Feminist Press – New York, NY
Graywolf Press – Minneapolis, MN
Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) – Los Angeles, CA
MTO Press – United Kingdom
New Directions – New York, NY
Nightboat Books – Brooklyn, NY
Peirene Press – United Kingdom
Tilted Axis Press – United Kingdom
Transit Books – Berkeley, CA

Community Partners

American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)
Asian American Writers Workshop (AAWW) – New York, NY
Cedilla & Co. Translation Collective
Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)
Literary Arts – Portland, OR
LitNet: The Literary Network
National Endowment for the Arts  – Washington, DC
Words Without Borders – New York, NY

Education Partners

Clark University – Worcester, MA
National Writing Project – Berkeley, CA
Oakland Unified School District – Oakland, CA
Philadelphia Writing Project
Project Zero arts education research program, Harvard Graduate School of Education
San Diego Writing Project
San Francisco Unified School District
School District of Philadelphia
St. Louis Poetry Center – St. Louis, MO
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Iowa Center for Translation and Global Literacy
University of Pennsylvania