I'm honored to share that The Massachusetts Review has nominated my work for a Pushcart Prize ! The story, a haunting tale of memory, grief, and the quiet details of life in a nursing home, was written by the award-winning Portuguese author José Luís Peixoto and featured in the magazine's summer 2025 issue. I and my talented colleague Elton Uliana co-translated the author's signature incantatory prose, finding the collaborative process incredibly rewarding. To see this piece

The latest issue of The Massachusetts Review includes my co-translation with esteemed colleague and friend Elton Uliana. Titled "The...

Today sees the publication of this beauty , which includes, among all the stunning art and innovative, my nonfiction prose poem "Summer,...

It is such a thrill to announce that I and the Brazilian author I've been translating, Állex Leilla, have signed with Foreshore...

When Chicago's storied art gallery Woman Made announced their theme for an upcoming juried show, I was moved. Invisibility: Existing at...

When asked to curate a special portfolio on translation for West Branch magazine's online edition, Wired, I jumped at the chance to...

(Reposted from my original October 15, 2015, entry) Come October, when readers' eyes turn toward the chilling and macabre, bookstores...

The latest issue of West Branch includes my translation of a short story by Brazilian writer Állex Leilla, her first publication in...

As a writer and translator, sometimes it's helpful every once in awhile to step away from the page, exercise a different artistic muscle....

I'm proud to share my most recently publication, an intensely personal essay on disability and the translator's invisibility: "First I...

It's my distinct honor and privilege to share that I've been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support my...

Book lovers the world over know April 23 as the death date for both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, and it is this double...

Emma Ramadan, for her translation, from French, of Abdellah Taïb's A Country for Dying (Seven Stories Press). Of this Moroccan-French...

Collectively, judges for the 2021 slate of PEN Literary Awards read over 1,850 titles. I'm honored to say that I played a small part in...

Engage a translator or publisher in conversation for any length of time about the state of translated literature, and they'll more than...

We find ourselves in a time when questions surrounding American identity — What is “Americanness” and who has the right to call him- or...

2016 has seen a wealth of Shakespeare-related programming, performances, carefully timed book releases, and even a special hashtag, all...