Writers & Translators
Translators and authors published by Two Lines Press and contributors to the Calico series.
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.
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Jeremy Tiang
Jeremy Tiang is a novelist, playwright and Sinophone translator. Recent translations include Liu Xinwu’s The Wedding Party, which was shortlisted for the National Translation Award, as well as novels by Zhang Yueran, Shuang Xuetao, Lo Yi-Chin, Yan Ge and Yeng Pway Ngon. Their novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018. Earlier this year they were the Princeton University Translator-in-Residence, and served on the jury of the International Booker Prize. Originally from Singapore, they live in Flushing, Queens.
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Dorothy Tse
Dorothy Tse is the author of several short story collections and has received the Hong Kong Book Prize, Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature, and Taiwan’s Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award. Her first book to appear in English, Snow and Shadow (translated by Nicky Harman), was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. She is the cofounder of the literary journal Fleurs des Lettres.
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Angus Turvill
Angus Turvill was a winner of the grand prize in the Shizuoka International Translation Competition, and he has received John Dryden and Kurodahan translation awards. His translations include Tales from a Mountain Cave, by the great humorist and anti-militarist Hisashi Inoue, and Heaven’s Wind, a bilingual collection of stories by some of Japan’s finest contemporary women writers.
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Oksana Vasyakina
Oksana Vasyakina is a Russian poetess, activist, and curator of cultural projects. She was born in 1989 in Ust-Ilimsk and graduated from the Gorky Literature Institute in 2016. Vasyakina was awarded the Lyceum Prize in 2019. Her first book of poetry, Женская проза (Women’s prose), was pub- lished in 2016, and a cycle of poetic texts, Ветер ярости (The wind of fury), was published in 2019. The English-language translation of Vasyakina’s first novel, Wound, will be published in the US in 2023 by Catapult.
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Saskia Vogel
Saskia Vogel is the author of Permission, a novel on grief, desire, and coastal Los Angeles that was published in five languages and longlisted for the Believer Book Award. She is also the deputy editor the Erotic Review, a 30-year-old UK arts and lifestyle journal which relaunched in March 2024. Her writing focuses on desire, landscape, subculture, and care, and has been awarded the Berlin Senate Endowment for Non-German Literature. She can be read in Granta, The Paris Review, The White Review, The Offing, The Literary Hub, and more. A translator of over two dozen Swedish-language books, her work has won the Bernard Shaw Prize (Johanne Lykke Holm’s Strega), the CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction (Johannes Anyuru’s They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears), has been shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize (Jessica Schiefauer’s Girls Lost), as well as having been supported by grants from the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Authors’ Fund, and English PEN. She was Princeton University’s Translator in Residence in fall 2022, where she completed her translation of Linnea Axelsson’s Sámi epic Aednan. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she lives in Berlin.
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Richard Weiner
Richard Weiner (1884–1937) is widely considered to be one of the most important Czech writers of the twentieth century. The author of several works of poetry and prose, his writing was suppressed during the Communist period and only became recognized for its importance after 1989.
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Tamar Weiss-Gabbay
Tamar Weiss-Gabbay is an Israeli author. She has published five books in Hebrew, both for adults and children, and has earned rave reviews. Her recent children’s book was chosen to be distributed to preschools throughout Israel. She leads various literary-social projects, including The Israeli Women Writers’ Forum, Two: A Bilingual Project for Arabic and Hebrew Contemporary Literature, and the street libraries in Jerusalem.
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Juliet Winters Carpenter
Juliet Winters Carpenter was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1948. She is a veteran translator and double recipient of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission for the Translation of Japanese Literature, in 1980 for Abe Kōbō’s Secret Rendezvous and in 2014 for Minae Mizumura’s A True Novel. In addition to numerous works on Japanese culture and religion, she has translated fiction by authors such as Enchi Fumiko, Tawara Machi, Watanabe Shin’ichi, Miyabe Miyuki, Shiba Ryōtarō, Miura Shion, and Hirano Keiichirō. With Aotani Yüko, she edited the bilingual book Gems of Japanese Literature/ Eigo rōdoku de tanoshimu Nihon bungaku. A professor emerita of Doshisha Women’s College, she lives with her husband on Whidbey Island in Washington State.
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Elisa Wouk Almino
Elisa Wouk Almino is translating previously unpublished letters by Ana Cristina Cesar and the poetry related to these letters. She is the translator of This House by Ana Martins Marques (Scrambler Books) in addition to translating Paulo Leminski, Luciany Aparecida, Caio Fernando Abreu, among others. She is a senior editor at Hyperallergic and the editor of Alice Trumbull Mason: Pioneer of American Abstraction (Rizzoli). She teaches art criticism at Catapult and translation at UCLA Extension. (photo credit: Melissa Golinsky)
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Matvei Yankelevich
Matvei Yankelevich has translated Elena Guro, Daniil Kharms, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Alexander Vvedensky, as well as several contemporary Russian-language poets. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for Humanities, and was a co-recipient (with Eugene Ostashevsky) of the 2014 National Translation Award. He teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
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Valeriya Yermishova
Valeriya Yermishova is a freelance French and Russian to English translator based in the New York City area. She earned an MA in Translation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) and teaches at the Hunter College MA in Translation and Interpreting Program. She is the translator of Viktor Shklovsky’s Life of a Bishop’s Assistant and Sergey Kuznetsov’s The Round Dance of Water.
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Xu Zechen
Xu Zechen is the author of the novels Midnight’s Door, Night Train, Heaven on Earth, and Running Through Beijing (Two Lines Press, 2014). He was selected by People’s Literature as one of the “Future 20” best Chinese writers under forty-one. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, he lives in Beijing.
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Jeffrey Zuckerman
Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French and the Digital Coordinator at Music & Literature Magazine. His translations include Ananda Devi’s Eve Out of Her Ruins, the diaries of the Dardenne brothers, and Jean Genet’s The Criminal Child. He has also contributed shorter pieces to Frieze, The New Republic, The NYRDaily, The Paris Review Daily, The White Review, and VICE. Jeffrey studied English literature and literary translation at Yale University, and has served as a judge for the PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award. He is a recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for his ongoing work on the complete stories of Hervé Guibert.