Translators

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  • Ping Zhu is an associate professor of Chinese literature at the University of Oklahoma and serves as the acting editor in chief of Chinese Literature Today.



  • Olga Zilberbourg is the author of Like Water and Other Stories, which explores “bicultural identity hilariously, poignantly,” according to the Moscow Times. She serves as a co-moderator of the San Francisco Writers Workshop and co-edits Punctured Lines, a blog on the literatures of the former USSR and diaspora.



  • Linda Stern Zisquit has published six poetry collections. Her new collection, Wing, will be published in 2025. Her translations from Hebrew include works by Yona Wallach and Rivka Miriam. She is associate professor (emerita) and for many years was poetry coordinator for the Creative Writing Program at Bar Ilan University. Born in Buffalo, New York, she teaches and runs Artspace, a gallery in Jerusalem representing local artists



  • Jennifer Zoble is a writer, editor, educator, and literary translator. She coedits InTranslation and teaches academic and creative writing at NYU.



  • María José Zubieta is a literary translator and a professor at New York University. Her translations include The Man Who Gazed at the Sky (2013), Todo cuerpo es tótem / Every Body Is Totem (2019), and And a Woman Walked and Walked and Walked: The Poetry of Julia Uceda (2021).



  • Jeffrey Zuckerman’s translation of Ananda Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins won the CLMP Firecracker Prize, and The Living Days was a finalist for the French-American Foundation translation prize. He is currently translating Devi’s Eat the Other and The Laugh of the Goddesses for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 2020 he was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.