Writers & Translators
Translators and authors published by Two Lines Press and contributors to the Calico series.
Ana Cristina Cesar
Ana Cristina César was a poet and translator from Rio de Janeiro. She had written since childhood and developed a strong interest in English literature. She spent some time in England in 1968 and, on returning to Brazil, she became a published author of note. The 1970s and early 1980s were the peak of her poetic career. She returned to England in 1983. One of the authors she admired was Sylvia Plath, whom she shared some commonalities with, in temperament and fate. She died in 1983 by jumping out of a window at her parents’ apartment, in Rio de Janeiro. (photo credit: João Almino)
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Allison M. Charette
Allison M. Charette translates literature from French into English. Her most recent translation, Return to the Enchanted Island by Johary Ravaloson, published in 2019 by AmazonCrossing, is only the second novel to be translated into English from Madagascar. Allison received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship in 2018 for her work on Michèle Rakotoson’s novel Lalana. She also founded the Emerging Literary Translators’ Network in America (ELTNA.org), a networking and support group for early-career translators.
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Chan Chi Wa
Chan Chi Wa, born in Hong Kong, is a freelance writer, editor, and film critic. He was the president of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society from 2012 to 2015 and editor of the literary magazine Fleurs des lettres from 2007 to 2011. His short story collection The Elephant That Vanished was published in 2008.
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Jessica Cohen
Jessica Cohen was born in England, raised in Israel, and lives in Denver. She translates contemporary Israeli prose, poetry, and other creative work. She shared the 2017 Man Booker International Prize with David Grossman, for her translation of A Horse Walks into a Bar, and has translated major Israeli writers including Amos Oz, Etgar Keret, Ronit Matalon, and Nir Baram.
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Isabel Fargo Cole
ISABEL FARGO COLE is a U.S.-born, Berlin-based writer and translator. Her translations include five books of Wolfgang Hilbig’s, including Old Rendering Plant, for which she received the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize. She has also been the recipient of a prestigious PEN/Heim Translation Grant, and her novel Die grüne Grenze was a finalist for the 2018 Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse. (Photo credit: Emma Braslavsky)
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Samantha Cosentino
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Sean Cotter
Sean Cotter’s translations from the Romanian include Nichita Stănescu’s Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems (recipient of the 2012 Best Translated Book Award for Poetry), Liliana Ursu’s Lightwall, and Nichita Danilov’s Secondhand Souls. His essays, articles, and translations have appeared in Conjunctions, 22, and Translation Review. He has lived in Romania as both a Fulbright-Hays scholar and a Peace Corps volunteer. He is s a professor of literature and literary translation at the University of Texas at Dallas and has translated many books of Romanian literature, most recently Mircea Cătărescu’s Solenoid (Deep Vellum, 2022).
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Robyn Creswell
Robyn Creswell teaches comparative literature at Yale University. He is the translator of Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Tongue of Adam and Sonallah Ibrahim’s That Smell and Notes from Prison (both published by New Directions). He is the author of City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut (Princeton). His essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere. (Photo credit: Annette Hornischer)
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Michael Day
Michael Day is a traveler, writer, and translator who lives in Los Angeles and Mexico City. His work has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books: China Channel, Georgia Review, Words Without Borders, Pathlight, and Massachusetts Review. His awards include the 2015 Bai Meigui Translation Prize (joint winner with Natascha Bruce) and the 2020 Jules Chametzky Translation Prize. His co-translation, with Nicky Harman, of Yang Hao’s Diablo’s Boys is pending publication from Balestier Press.
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Koen De Cuyper
Koen De Cuyper earned an MA in translation from the University of Leuven, during which time he spent a year in residence at the Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech. He currently lives and works in Rabat where he is the scientific information specialist at the Netherlands Institute in Morocco (NIMAR).
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Carl de Souza
Carl de Souza is a writer born and living in Mauritius. He graduated in biology and maths at the University of London before pursuing a career in education at various levels. He has led an intense sports life, mainly in badminton, which is the background of one of his novels. He has published short stories and six novels in France, of which Kaya Days is his first to be translated into English.
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Lisa Dillman
Lisa Dillman is based in Atlanta, where she teaches at Emory University. She is translator of some thirty novels, including those of Yuri Herrera, Pilar Quintana, Sabina Berman and Andrés Barba.
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Lidija Dimkovska
Lidija Dimkovska is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2013 European Union Prize for Literature for A Spare Life. She is also the author of the poetry collection pH Neutral History (Copper Canyon Press, 2012), which was a finalist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award, and Do Not Awaken Them With Hammers (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006). She lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Ricardo Domeneck
Ricardo Domeneck is a poet and performer. Born in Brazil in 1977, he currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He has published nine collections of poetry and two collections of prose in Brazil, and translations of his work have been published in Germany, Spain, and the Netherlands. In addition to his own work, he has collaborated with Brazilian and German musicians such as Tetine, Lea Porcelain, Nelson Bell, and Francisco Bley.
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Dorothee Elmiger
Dorothee Elmiger was born in 1985 in Switzerland. She is the author of Out of the Sugar Factory, Shift Sleepers and Invitation to the Bold of Heart. Elmiger has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Aspekte Literature Prize for the best debut novel written in German, the 2021 Schillerpreis, and most recently the 2022 Nicolas Born Prize. Out of the Sugar Factory was shortlisted for both the German and the Swiss Book Award. Elmiger is an editor at Volte Books. She lives in New York City.
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Megan Ewing
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Huda Fakhreddine
Huda Fakhreddine is assistant professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition (Brill, 2015) and the co-translator of Lighthouse for the Drowning (BOA editions, 2017) and The Sky That Denied Me (University of Texas Press, 2020). Her translations of modern Arabic poems have appeared in Banipal, World Literature Today, Nimrod, ArabLit Quarterly, and Middle Eastern Literatures.
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Colette Fellous
Colette Fellous is the author of more than twenty novels, including Aujourd’hui (2005), for which she received the Prix Marguerite Duras, and La Préparation de la vie (2014), in which she pays homage to her mentor Roland Barthes. A former publisher and radio producer for France Culture, she lives between France and Tunisia and is also a photographer. This Tilting World is her first book published in English.
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Eric Fishman
Eric Fishman is an educator, writer, and translator. His most recent translation is Outside: Poetry and Prose by André du Bouchet (Bitter Oleander Press). He is currently translating a selected volume of poetry by Monchoachi. Eric is also a founding editor of Young Radish, a magazine of poetry and art by kids and teens. (Photo credit: Arlette Pacquit)