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Sally-Ann Spencer

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Saliha Paker

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Sean S. Sell

Stavros Deligiorgis

Sebastian Schulman

Silvester Mazzarella

Stephen Cohen

Simon Armitage

Sevinç Türkkan

Sora Kim-Russell

Sam Bett

Sarah Booker

Susan Hwang

Shahar Bram

Sasha Dugdale

Simon Carnell

Salar Abdoh

Sarah Enany

Samuel P. Willcocks

Stephen Snyder

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Slim FitzGerald

Sophie Lewis

Sylvia Maizell

Soje

Sonia Protti

Sean Cotter

Seán Kinsella

Sarah Evenson

Shelly Bryant

Sam Taylor

Stephen Nashef

Steven T. Murray

Shengchi Hsu

Sam Malissa

Siân Reynolds

Svetlana Lavochkina

Sophie Hughes

Sawad Hussain

Susan Bernofsky

S. D. Curtis

Samuel Salter

Soeun Seo

Steven White

Stanley Bill

Stephen B. Snyder

Shawn Whiteside

Srinivas Rayaprol

Saskia Vogel

Sonia Alland

Sara Meli Ansari

Sinan Antoon

Susan Becker

Sarit Blum

Sue Branford

Susan Brown

Sarah Brownsberger

Steven Cohen

Sharon Dolin

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Selhan Endres

Shelley Fairweather-Vega

Stuart Friebert

Stuart Friebert

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Shanta Gokhale

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Sacha Idell

Syed Manzoorul Islam

Sara Khalili

Suji Kwock Kim

Soo Y. Kim

Sunja Kim Kwock

Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov

Su Layug

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Seth Michelson

Stiliana Milkova

Shene Mohammed

Sarah Moore

Shahla Naghiyeva

Shoshana Olidort

Stephanie Papa

Souradeep Roy

Stephanie Sandler

Samantha Schnee

Sudeep Sen

Shook

Sondra Silverston

S. Melissa Steinhardt

Stine Su Yon An

Shanna Tan

Spencer Thurlow

Soraya Umewaka

Samantha Vila

Shelby Vincent

Steven F. White

Shaun Whiteside

Simon Wickham-Smith

Sam Wilder

Sharni Wilson

Sholeh Wolpé


  • Brian Sneeden is a PhD candidate in translation studies at the University of Connecticut. Peter Constantine, director of the UConn Program in Literary Translation, is his sponsoring professor. Sneeden’s collection of poems, Last City, was recently published by Carnegie Mellon University Press (2018), and his translation of Giannisi’s Homerica (World Poetry Books) was published in 2017. He currently serves as senior editor of New Poetry in Translation.



  • Pat Snidvongs is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Princeton University, with particular interests in classics and linguistics.



  • D. P. Snyder (b. 1960, Philadelphia) is a bilingual writer and translator from Spanish. Her translations have appeared in the Sewanee Review, Exile Quarterly, Two Lines Journal, World Literature Today, and Review: Literature and Art of the Americas. She is a contributor to many magazines and is on the editorial board at Reading in Translation. Her first book-length translation is Meaty Pleasures, a collection by Mexican writer Mónica Lavín (2021).



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    D. P. Snyder is a bilingual writer, translator, critic and member of the editorial board at Reading in Translation. Among her published works are Meaty Pleasures (2021), selected stories by Mónica Lavín (Mexico), and Arrhythmias, arrhythmic essays by Mexican writer Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, forthcoming in November 2022 from Literal Publishing and Hablemos, escritoras.



  • Dorothy Potter Snyder (b. 1960, Philadelphia) is a writer and translator who has published work by Mónica Lavín (Mexico), Almudena Sánchez (Spain), and Juan Carlos Garvayo, among others. Her translation of Lavín’s collection Meaty Pleasures was released by Katakana Editores in September 2021.



  • Emily Socha is a translator of Spanish and Latin American poetry. She is currently focusing on the works of younger peninsular Spanish poets.



  • Paul Sohar has published seventeen books of translations earning three prizes, the latest being Silver Pirouettes (2017). His magazine publications include Agni, Rattle, Rhino, and others.



  • Ivan Sokolov is a poet, translator, and critic from St. Petersburg and a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley. The author of five books of poetry, he has translated G. M. Hopkins, Gertrude Stein, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, and other writers into Russian, and the poetry of Natalia Azarova into English. He serves as a contributing editor at GRIOZA, where in 2020 he curated an international festschrift for the centenary of Paul Celan’s birth.


  • Karina Sotnik was born in Riga in 1965. In addition to her translation activity, she works in the high-tech industry as a consultant for international business development. She also imports linen products from the Baltic region to the United States and designed her own line of children's bed linens, Linu Baby.



  • Keegan Sparks graduated from the University of Kansas in 2019 with a degree in East Asian languages and cultures, with a concentration in Chinese language and culture.



  • Troy E. Spier is a professor of English and linguistics at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. He earned an MA and PhD in linguistics at Tulane University, a bachelor’s degree in English/secondary education at Kutztown University, and an AA in general studies at Reading Area Community College.


  • Mbarek Sryfi is a lecturer in Arabic at the University of Pennsylvania where he is completing a PhD in modern Arabic literature. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at Mercer County Community College in New Jersey and currently is a visiting lecturer at Swarthmore College. His translations from the Arabic have appeared in CELAAN Review and Metamorphoses.



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    Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and publisher of Restless Books. His latest books are I Love My Selfie (Duke, with Adál) and Quixote: The Novel and the World (Norton). He has translated into English the poetry of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rubén Darío, Jorge Luis Borges, and Pablo Neruda, among others. He is also the editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry (2011).



  • Cynthia Steele is professor emerita of comparative literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her translations include Inés Arredondo, Underground Rivers and Other Stories (1996); José Emilio Pacheco, City of Memory and Other Poems (2001); and María Gudín, Open Sea (2018). They have also appeared in Chicago Review, Gulf Coast, Washington Square Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Southern Review, and Agni, among others. Photo by Carolyn Cullen


  • S. Melissa Steinhardt, instructor of English at Hillsborough Community College (Tampa, Florida), is currently researching Afro-Cuban culture to facilitate her English translation of Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte.



  • Stine Su Yon An is a poet and translator based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Black Warrior Review, Waxwing, Pleiades, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in literary arts from Brown University.



  • Translator Marcela Sulak’s third poetry collection and her memoir were recently published by Black Lawrence Press. A 2019 NEA Translation Fellow and a 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation finalist, she has translated five collections of poetry. Sulak is an associate professor of literature at Bar-Ilan University.



  • Emma Suleiman is an international communications consultant with twelve years’ experience managing global communication strategies. She advises newly established nonprofits to support the creation and implementation of their communications strategies to local communities and to an international audience.



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    Clare Sullivan, professor of Spanish at the University of Louisville, teaches language, poetry, and translation. Her collaborative translations of Natalia Toledo and Enriqueta Lunez have appeared in Phoneme Media and Ugly Duckling Presse. Deche bitoope / El dorso del cangrejo / Carapace Dancer, by Natalia Toledo, is forthcoming from Deep Vellum. 



  • Anna Sun is a scholar of Chinese religion and author of Confucianism as a World Religion. Her essays on literature have appeared in the Kenyon Review and London Review of Books.



  • Kim Sunghyun is a South Korean poet and professor. His Korean poetry books include Metropolis, Metropolis 2, and Metropolis 3.