Madhu H. Kaza

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.