Writers & Translators
Translators and authors published by Two Lines Press and Calico.
Jay Boss Rubin
Jay Boss Rubin is a writer and translator from Portland, Oregon. His translations from Swahili to English have been published by or are forthcoming from Two Lines Press, Yale University Press, Asymptote, The Common, The Hopkins Review and Northwest Review. He is a graduate of the Queens College, City University of New York MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation.
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Galina Rymbu
Galina Rymbu is, in the words of Time Magazine, “part of a new generation of Russian poets taking up language as a form of political protest, challenging state, societal, and patriarchal norms with poetry that draws from personal experience.” Her poetry collection Life in Space, translated by Joan Brooks and others, was published recently by Ugly Duckling Presse. She edits F-Pis’mo, an online magazine for feminist literature and theory, and is the coeditor of the translation anthology F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry, released in the US and the UK by Isolarii.
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Kim Sagwa
Kim Sagwa is one of South Korea’s most acclaimed emerging writers. She is the author of several novels, story collections, and works of nonfiction, and has been shortlisted for numerous literary awards. She lives in New York City.
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Pirkko Saisio
Pirkko Saisio (b. 1949) studied drama and completed her actor’s training in 1975. Her debut novel The Course of Life (Elämänmeno, 1975) won the J. H. Erkko Award. Saisio has been nominated for the Finlandia Prize seven times, winning it in with The Red Book of Farewells (Punainen erokirja, 2003). She has, among other awards, received Aleksis Kivi Prize and State Literature Award. Apart from novels, she has written numerous plays and scripts for film and television and is a well-known theatre director.
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Toni Sala
Toni Sala is the author of over a dozen novels and works of nonfiction. In 2005 he was awarded the National Literature Prize by the Catalan government, and he has also received many other honors for his writing. He lives in Barcelona.
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Julia Sanches
Julia Sanches is a translator of Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. She has translated works by Susana Moreira Marques, Dolores Reyes, Daniel Galera, and Eva Baltasar, among others. Her shorter translations have appeared in various magazines and periodicals, including Words Without Borders, Granta, Tin House, and Guernica. A founding member of Cedilla & Co., Julia sits on the Council of the Authors Guild.
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Igiaba Scego
Igiaba Scego, born in Rome in 1974 to a family of Somali origins, is a writer and journalist. She is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, and her memoir La mia casa è dove sono won Italy’s prestigious Mondello Prize. She is a frequent contributor to the magazine Internazionale and the supplement to La Repubblica, Il Venerdì di Repubblica.
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Olga Sedakova
Olga Sedakova is one of Russia’s most revered poets today. Born in 1949, she emerged as a writer in the late Soviet Underground. In recent decades she has primarily published translations, essays, and cultural criticism, reflecting her growing importance as a voice of conscience. Sedakova’s poetry reflects a “longing for world culture” (Mandelstam) as well as an ongoing attempt to articulate an ethic and aesthetic grounded in Russian cultural traditions.
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Karima Shabrang
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Ahmed Shafie
Ahmed Shafie is an Egyptian poet, novelist, and translator. He has published three poetry collections and two novels. His most recent collection is 77 (2017). He has translated Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Lucille Clifton, and others. Shafie blogs at “Qera’at Ahmed Shafie.”
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Ekaterina Simonova
Ekaterina Simonova is a poet from Nizhny Tagil. Now in Ekaterinburg, Simonova has published six poetry collections and was shortlisted for the 2020 Andrei Bely Prize. Simonova holds a prominent place in the contemporary vanguard of queer and feminist Russophone poetics. In her poems, Simonova plays with prose, deftly constructing simultaneously joyous and melancholy portraits of women and the objects that make a life. Simonova also edits the woman-run poetry series “InVersia.”
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Chen Si’an
Chen Si’an is a playwright, theater director, poet, short story writer, and literary translator. She was born in Inner Mongolia and now lives and works in Beijing. She has written three collections of short stories and six plays. Her plays have been performed at the Royal Court Theatre, the Edinburgh International Festival, the National Theatre Company of China, and the Beijing International Fringe Festival. She is executive editor of Wings Poetry and founder of the international script-reading event Sound and Fury.
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Ho Sok Fong
Ho Sok Fong is the author of Lake Like a Mirror (Two Lines Press) and Maze Carpet. Her literary awards include the Chiu Ko Fiction Prize (2015), the 25th China Times Short Story Prize, and the 30th United Press Short Story Prize. She has a PhD in Chinese Language & Literature from NTU Singapore, and lives in Malaysia.
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Adam J. Sorkin
Adam J. Sorkin has translated more than seventy books of contemporary Romanian poetry. His recent translations include Dangerous Caprices by Nora Iuga, translated with Diana Manole (Naked Eye Publishing); California (on the Someș) by Ruxandra Cesereanu, translated with the poet (Black Widow Press); Dinner with Marx by Matei Vișniec, translated with Lidia Vianu (New Meridian Arts); and most recently, Canting Arms by Emilian Galaicu-Păun, with multiple co-translators (Deep Vellum). (Photo credit: Nancy Sorkin)
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Mia Spangenberg
Mia Spangenberg translates from Finnish, Swedish, and German into English. Her work has been published in Finland and the UK, and appeared in journals such as LitHub and Asymptote. She holds a Ph.D. in Scandinavian studies from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she resides with her family.
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Joel Streicker
Joel Streicker’s stories have appeared in a number of journals, including Blood Orange Review, Great Lakes Review, Gravel, and Burningword. He has published poetry in English and Spanish, including the collection El amor en los tiempos de Belisario. His translations of such Latin American writers as Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enríquez, and Pilar Quintana have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, and other journals. Streicker’s essays have appeared in The Forward and Shofar, among other publications.
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Jordan Stump
Jordan Stump is a Professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; he has translated some thirty works of (mostly) contemporary French fiction, by such writers as Marie Redonnet, Eric Chevillard, and Scholastique Mukasonga, as well as seven works by Marie NDiaye, including the forthcoming Vengeance Is Mine. His translation of her The Cheffe was awarded the annual translation prize for fiction by the American Literary Translators’ Association.
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Nobuko Takagi
Nobuko Takagi is well known for works of a sensuous nature, in particular her book Translucent Tree, a story of love between an older couple. She traveled all over Asia and wrote a collection of stories inspired by her experiences as part of her “Soaked in Asia Project” at Kyushu University. “The Hole in the Sky” was one of those stories. Her story “Tomosui” (Two Lines Issue 24) received the Kawabata Yasunari Award in 2010.
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Enoch Tam
Enoch Tam has been writing for more than ten years and follows the practices of renowned Hong Kong authors Quanan, Xi Xi, Dung Kai-cheung, and Hon Lai-chu, and devotes his creativity to the combination of surrealist and magical realist city writings.