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Anna Kushner’s translation of Marcial Gala’s The Black Cathedral was released in 2020 to rave reviews in the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and other major publications. It is newly out in paperback. Her translation of Leonardo Padura’s The Transparency of Time is forthcoming from FSG this summer. As a writer, Kushner has published poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction in Crab Orchard Review, Cuba Counterpoints, Wild River Review, World Literature Today, and elsewhere.

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Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking home in New York. She is the author of The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible (2015), a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and the Sami Rohr Prize, and the poetry collection Wolf Lamb Bomb (April 2021). She is The Forward’s language columnist and an associate professor at Columbia College Chicago. 

Sunja Kim Kwock’s work focuses on the conjunction of Buddhism and Christianity, particularly liberation theology.

Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov is an award-winning translator. Her translations include The Oseberg Ship, by Vibeke Bischoff; Truth’s Labyrinth, by Jørgen Steines; and A New Beginning, by Anna Eckhoff. Sinéad is secretary of the Association of Danish to English Literary Translators.