Translators

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.

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.

Teacher and translator Alireza Taghdarreh lives in Tehran. He has translated Thoreau, Emerson, and Kim Stafford into Persian. His reflections on Thoreau and Rumi’s poetry can be found on YouTube.

Kayvan Tahmasebian is a writer and researcher in comparative literary theory and criticism. He is the author of Isfahan’s Mold (2016). His research interests range across textual materialism, constellations of world literature, and poetics of contingency. He also translates poetry from English and French into Persian, and from Persian into English. Read more about his work at Academia.edu.

Shanna Tan is a Singaporean translator working from Korean, Chinese, and Japanese into English. She translated the bestselling Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, by Hwang Bo-reum. She is currently working on several projects from Korean and Chinese, including novels and creative nonfiction titles.

Jenna Tang is a Taiwanese writer and translator based in New York. She translates from Chinese, French, and Spanish. Her translations and essays have appeared in Restless Books, AAWW, WLT, Catapult, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. She is a selected translator for the 2021 ALTA Emerging Translators Mentorship program with a focus on Taiwanese prose.

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Öykü Tekten is a poet, translator, archivist, and editor.

Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor and chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA. He is the author or co-author of numerous books including Black France (2007), Africa and France (2013), Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution (2014), The Invention of Race (2014), and Vers la guerre des identités (2016). He is the editor of the Global African Voices series at Indiana University Press.

Tim Thomas is a musical writer, actor, and photographer. He lives in London.

Max Thompson is an MFA student of translation at the University of Arkansas. His work has appeared previously in The Alchemy Journal of Translation and Unsplendid.

Vala Thorodds is a translator, poet, publisher, and editor. She received a PEN/Heim grant for her translation of the novel Swanfolk, by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, published in the US and the UK in 2022, and her translation of Forevernoon, by Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, was recently named a Guardian poetry book of the month. Her work has appeared in publications including Granta, the White Review, and The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem.

Spencer Thurlow is the current Poet Laureate of West Tisbury, Massachusetts. His poetry or translations have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, World Literature Today, Cincinnati Review, Comstock Review, Worcester Review, and others. He is co-translator of Sonic Peace, by Kiriu Minashita.

Tiffany Troy is author of Dominus (BlazeVOX [books]). She is also managing editor at Tupelo Quarterly, associate editor of Tupelo Press, and book review co-editor at the Los Angeles Review.

Valeria Tsygankova is currently doing graduate work in the history of the book at the University of London. In 2011 she graduated with a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania, where she edited two undergraduate literary magazines and wrote an honors thesis on the publication history of the Bishops' Bible (1568). She is especially interested in contemporary poetry and poetics, twentieth-century Russian writers, translation, and book history.