Writers & Translators
Translators and authors published by Two Lines Press and Calico.
Bruno Lloret
Bruno Lloret (Santiago de Chile, 1990) is a writer and researcher. He has published Nancy (Cuneta, Santiago de Chile, 2015; Two Lines Press, 2021), which received an honorable mention for the Roberto Bolaño Award for novella, and Leña (Overol, Santiago de Chile, 2018). He currently lives in London.
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Bruna Dantas Lobato
Bruna Dantas Lobato is a fiction writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translated Literature for The Words that Remain by Stênio Gardel. Originally from Natal, Brazil, she lives in Iowa and teaches at Grinnell College. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is forthcoming in October 2024 from Grove Atlantic. (Photo Credit: Ashley Pieper)
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Idza Luhumyo
Idza Luhumyo is a Kenyan writer. She is the winner of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing.
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Christina MacSweeney
Christina MacSweeney has an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia. Her work has been recognized in a number of important awards. Her translation of Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth was awarded the 2016 Valle Inclán Translation Prize and also shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award (2017). Her most recent translations include fiction and nonfiction works by Daniel Saldaña París, Elvira Navarro, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Julián Herbert, Jazmina Barrera, and Karla Suárez. She has also contributed to anthologies of Latin American literature and published translations, articles and interviews on a variety of platforms.
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Charlotte Mandell
Charlotte Mandell’s translation of Jean-Luc Nancy’s La jouissance (titled Coming) was published by Fordham University Press in September 2016. She has translated more than forty books; her current project, Mathias Énard’s Compass, which recently won the Prix Goncourt, is forthcoming from New Directions Publishing in the U.S. and from Fitzcarraldo Editions in the U.K. Her translations of Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Fall of Sleep, Listening, and After Fukushima were all published by Fordham University Press.
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Layla Martínez
Layla Martínez (Madrid, 1987) is the author of two nonfiction books in Spanish, Surrogate Pregnancy (Pepitas de calabaza, 2019) and Utopia is not an Island (Episkaia, 2020), as well as stories and articles in numerous anthologies. She has translated essays and novels, writes about music for El Salto, and about television for La Última Hora. Since 2014 she has co-directed the independent publisher Antipersona. Woodworm is her first novel.
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Kit Maude
Kit Maude is a translator based in Buenos Aires. He has translated dozens of Latin American writers for a wide array of publications and writes reviews for Ñ, Otra Parte, and the Times Literary Supplement.
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Megan McDowell
Megan McDowell has translated work by many of the most important contemporary Latin American writers, including Samanta Schweblin, Alejandro Zambra, Mariana Enriquez, Carlos Fonseca, and Lina Meruane. Her translations have won the National Book Award, the English PEN award for Writing in Translation, the Premio Valle-Inclán, the Shirley Jackson Prize, and two O. Henry Prizes, and have been short- or long-listed four times for the International Booker Prize, and shortlisted once for the Kirkus Prize. In 2020 she won an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her short story translations have been featured in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and Granta, among others. She is from Richmond, KY and lives in Santiago, Chile.
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Mariam Meetra
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Eva Meijer
Eva Meijer is a visual artist, writer, philosopher, and singer-songwriter. They wrote more than twenty books, including novels, poetry and philosophical essays. Their writing has been translated into over twenty languages. Politics, madness, nonhuman animals, and language, including silence, are recurring themes in their work. Meijer works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, writes for Dutch newspapers, and is a member of the Multispecies Art Collective.
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Adrian Minckley
Adrian Minckley is a media and literary translator; she lives and works along the Rio Grande.
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Robin Moger
Robin Moger is a translator of Arabic to English currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. His translations of prose and poetry have appeared in Blackbox Manifold, The White Review, Tentacular, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Seedings, The Johannesburg Review of Books, The Washington Square Review and others. He has translated several novels and prose works into English including Iman Mersal’s How To Mend (Kayfa ta), Nael Eltoukhy’s The Women of Karantina (AUC Press) and Youssef Rakha’s The Crocodiles (7 Stories Press). His translation of Haytham El Wardany’s The Book Of Sleep is forthcoming from Seagull Press in November 2020.
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Ed Moreno
Ed Moreno is a writer and translator from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and the recipient of a Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference scholarship. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, the Nashville Review, Foglifter, Blithe House Quarterly, and Cleis Press’s “Best Gay” series. He is currently writing his first novel.
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Adam Morris
Adam Morris has a PhD in Latin American Literature from Stanford University and is the recipient of the 2012 Susan Sontag Foundation Prize in literary translation. He is the translator of João Gilberto Noll’s Atlantic Hotel (Two Lines Press, 2017) and Quiet Creature on the Corner (Two Lines Press, 2016), and Hilda Hilst’s With My Dog-Eyes (Melville House Books, 2014). His writing and translations have been published widely, including in BOMB magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and many others. He lives in San Francisco.
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Canaan Morse
Canaan Morse is a literary translator, poet, and scholar of pre-modern Chinese literature. His translations of Chinese fiction and poetry have been published in Kenyon Review, Southern Review, The Baffler, and many other journals, as well as twice in book form via the NYRB Classics series. His recent translation of Ge Fei’s classic novel Peach Blossom Paradise was a Finalist for a 2021 National Book Award.
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Saadiah Mufarreh
Saadiah Mufarreh is a poet and critic and works as arts editor of Al-Qabas daily newspaper in Kuwait. She graduated from Kuwait University with a major in Arabic language and education in 1987 and has published four collections of poetry.
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Robin Myers
Robin Myers is a poet and Spanish-to-English translator. Her translations include Copy by Dolores Dorantes (Wave Books), The Dream of Every Cell by Maricela Guerrero (Cardboard House Press), The Book of Explanations by Tedi López Mills (Deep Vellum Publishing), Another Life by Daniel Lipara (Eulalia Books), Cars on Fire by Mónica Ramón Ríos (Open Letter Books), and other works of poetry and prose. She lives in Mexico City. (Photo credit: Nuria Lagarde)