Writers & Translators
Translators and authors published by Two Lines Press and Calico.
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 has translated many authors into English from French, including Marie Redonnet, Eric Chevillard, and Honoré de Balzac. His translation of Jardin des Plantes by Claude Simon won the 2001 French-American Foundation translation prize, and he was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Artes et des Lettres in 2006. His English language translations of works by Marie NDiaye have been nominated for the International Booker Prize twice. Ladivine was longlisted for the prize in 2016, and The Witch was shortlisted in 2026.
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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 a writer from Hong Kong. Her debut novel, Owlish, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and her short story collection, Snow and Shadow, was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. A cofounder of the literary journal Fleurs des Lettres, she has received the Hong Kong Book Prize, the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature, and Taiwan’s Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award. Her novel City Like Water came out with Graywolf Press in March 2026.
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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.