Translators

Joana Darezzo was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil. After receiving a BA in languages and literature at Pontifical Catholic University–São Paulo, she moved to San Francisco, California, where she received an MFA in creative writing at California College of the Arts. She is currently back in her hometown, teaching English as a foreign language to adults and teenagers.

Mona Darwazah has a BA in political science, is a researcher and human rights activist, and has more than thirty years’ experience working with national and international organizations on refugees and human development policy programming. She lives in Jordan.

Jeon Daye (MA) lives in Seoul and is a freelance translator.

Leticia de la Paz is a lecturer and a literary translator. A doctoral student at the University of Granada, she is currently working toward the completion of her PhD thesis on the analysis of the translated poems of American author Adrienne Rich with a gender perspective. Her research focuses on topics such as literary translation, censorship in translation, and gender and feminist studies.

Kate Deimling is a poet, writer, and translator from French. She recently edited a feature in Atlanta Review on poetry from France (spring 2025), and her translation of The Story of the Marquis de Cressy, a novel by eighteenth-century author Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, is forthcoming from MLA Press later this year.

Marlaine Delargy lives in Shropshire in the United Kingdom. She was a teacher for over twenty years. She has translated novels by many authors, including Kristina Ohlsson, Viveca Sten, Johan Theorin (with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2010), and Henning Mankell (with whom she won the CWA International Dagger in 2018).

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Catherine Zobal Dent is a fiction writer and translator. Her debut collection, Unfinished Stories of Girls, came out with Fomite in 2014. She is an associate professor of English and creative writing at the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University.

Author of critical essays, translations, and poems, Paul Scott Derrick teaches American literature at the University of Valencia in Spain. 

Whitney DeVos is a scholar, translator, and writer. Much of her current work focuses on lenguas originarias, the autochthonous languages of the Americas. She lives in Mexico City, where she is studying Náhuatl with the support of an NEA Translation Fellowship and a Global South Translation Fellowship from Cornell University's Institute for Comparative Modernities.

Lisa Dillman teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Emory University and translates from the Spanish. She has translated three Yuri Herrera novels, the third of which, Kingdom Cons, will be published in July 2017.

Dan Disney teaches twentieth-century poetry at Sogang University, Seoul.

Arthur Malcolm Dixon is co-founder, lead translator, and managing editor of Latin American Literature Today. His book-length translations to date include the novels Immigration: The Contest, by Carlos Gámez Pérez, and There Are Not So Many Stars, by Isaí Moreno, both from Katakana Editores, and the poetry collections Intensive Care, by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza; Wild West, by Alejandro Castro; Successive Approximations, by Lolbé González Arceo; and Domestic Life, by Marcelo Rioseco, all from Alliteration Publishing. He works as a community interpreter in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where from 2020 to 2023 he was a Tulsa Artist Fellow.

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Arthur Dixon is a writer and translator from Oklahoma. He is managing editor of Latin American Literature Today, and he blogs at El Greñudo.

Sharon Dolin (is the author of six poetry collections. She received grants from PEN and the Institut Ramon Llull for her translation of Gorga’s prose poems, Book of Minutes (Field Translation Series/Oberlin College Press, 2019). She lives in New York City and directs Writing About Art in Barcelona each June.

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Boris Dralyuk is a poet, literary translator, and Presidential Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa. He is the author, most recently, of the collection My Hollywood and Other Poems (WLT, July 2022, 64).

Vivian Eden holds a PhD in translation studies from the University of Iowa. The author of one book of poetry and numerous articles, she translates from Hebrew into English and a bit from French. Her day job is at Haaretz’s English edition, a daily newspaper published in Tel Aviv with the International New York Times.

Maayan Eitan is a writer and translator based in Tel Aviv. Her first novel, Love, was published in Israel in 2020. Her work is regularly published in Israeli and American literary magazines.

Thoraya El-Rayyes is a Palestinian-Canadian writer living in Amman, Jordan. Her translations of Arabic short stories have previously appeared in Saint Anne’s Review. 

Jonas Elbousty holds an MPhil and PhD from Columbia University. He is a writer, literary translator, and academic. He teaches in the department of Near Eastern Studies at Yale, where he was the director of Undergraduate Studies for seven years. He is currently the director of Undergraduate Studies at the Council on Middle East Studies.

Ellen Elias-Bursać translates fiction and nonfiction from Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian. Her translation of David Albahari’s novel Götz and Meyer was given the 2006 ALTA National Translation Award.

Eric Ellingsen is assistant professor of landscape architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and a member of Poetry-Jazz.

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Tomoyuki Endo is an assistant professor at Wako University in Tokyo and co-translator, with Forrest Gander, of Shuri Kido’s forthcoming book of poems, Names and Rivers.

George Evans’s poetry collections have been published in the UK, US, and Costa Rica, including The New World, Sudden Dreams, and the bilingual Espejo de la tierra / Earth’s Mirror, translated by Daisy Zamora. He has also published two volumes of translations: The Time Tree by Vietnamese poet Huu Thinh, and The Violent Foam by Daisy Zamora.

Huda Fakhreddine is an assistant professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (2015) and co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning (2017).

Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a professional translator in Seattle, Washington, with a special interest in new writing from Central Asia.

Miled Faiza is a Tunisian American poet and translator. He is the author of Remains of a House We Once Entered (2004) and translator of the Booker Prize–shortlisted novel Autumn, by Ali Smith (al-Kharif, 2017). He teaches Arabic at Brown University.

Vanessa Falco is a poet and translator of Korean poetry. Her work has appeared in Poetry International, Smartish Pace, and Enizagam, and she was awarded a Norman Mailer Poetry Fellowship.

Meng Fanjun is director of the International Association of Comparative Cultural Studies and a professor at Southwestern University’s College of International Studies in Chongqing, China.

Nicole Fares is a writer and translator. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Art Amiss, Alchemy Journal of Translation, Jadaliyya, and Youth Leader magazine, among others.