Translators

An Ethiopian musician, Jorga Mesfin is the founder of the Ethio-jazz group Wudasse and composed the score to Haile Gerima’s epic movie Teza, for which he won the award for Best Music Selection at the twenty-second Carthage Film Festival and Best Composer Award at the fifth Dubai International Film Festival.

Seth Michelson is a poet, translator, professor of poetry, and a 2018 NEA Literature Translation Fellow. His most recent project is Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention (Settlement House, 2017).

An associate professor at Babeș-University, Cluj, Romania, Erika Mihálycsa has translated Beckett, Flann O’Brien, Patrick McCabe, and others into Hungarian; edited Rareș Moldovan’s new Romanian translation of Ulysses (2023); and published a monograph on Beckett’s correspondence, “A wretchedness to defend”: Reading Beckett’s Letters (2022). Her translation of Zsuzsa Selyem’s It’s Raining in Moscow (2020) was among WLT’s notable translations for 2020.

Loredana Mihani received her BA in 2015 from John Cabot University in Rome, followed by a master of studies in English from Oxford University through the Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme. Her own translations of poems by Moikom Zeqo have appeared in Asymptote. She is currently pursuing a PhD in English Romanticism at the University of Graz in Austria.

Stiliana Milkova is a Bulgarian-born literary critic, translator, and professor of comparative literature at Oberlin College. She has translated from Italian works by Adriana Cavarero, Italo Calvino, Antonio Tabucchi, Alessandro Baricco, and others. She is the author of Elena Ferrante as World Literature (2021) and of many scholarly articles on Italian, Russian, and Bulgarian literatures. She edits the online journal Reading in Translation.

Wayne Miller (onlythesenses.com) has published four poetry collections, most recently Post- (Milkweed, 2016), which won the UNT Rilke Prize and the Colorado Book Award. His fifth collection, We the Jury, is forthcoming from Milkweed in 2021. He has co-translated two books by Moikom Zeqo, most recently Zodiac (Zephyr, 2015), which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award in Translation, and he has co-edited three books, including Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Milkweed, 2016) and New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). He teaches at the University of Colorado Denver and edits Copper Nickel.

Christina Miller is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oklahoma. She works primarily on contemporary Latin American prose, specializing in detective fiction.

Ming Di is a poet from China based in the US. The author of seven books of poetry in Chinese and one in collaborative translation, River Merchant’s Wife (2012), she has compiled and co-translated New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, Empty Chairs: Poems by Liu Xia, The Book of Cranes, and New Poetry from China 1917–2017. For her translations of English poetry into Chinese, she received the Lishan Poetry Award and the 2021 Best Ten Translator Award in China.

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Michelle Mirabella is a Spanish-to-English literary translator. In addition to her translation of Catalina Infante Beovic’s debut novel, The Cracks We Bear, her work appears in the anthologies Best Literary Translations (2024) and Daughters of Latin America (2023) as well as in venues such as World Literature Today.

Shene Mohammed is the assistant director at Kashkul, where she also works as an archivist, translator, and literary critic.

Erfan Mojib (b. 1984, Yazd, Iran, @JoseArcadioXVI) is the author of short stories and works for children and has translated various works from/to English.

Derek Mong is the author of two full-length collections, Other Romes (2011) and The Identity Thief (2018), as well as a chapbook of Latin adaptations.

Hoyoung Moon (hoyoung.info) is a translator and writer based in Seoul. Their translations into English include You Have Reached the End of the Future, by Hwang Inchan (2021), as well as poems and short stories in chogwa, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Offing, Azalea, Asymptote, and Korean Literature Now.

Sarah Moore is a publisher and journalist who writes about international literature. Her reviews and interviews have appeared in Literary Hub, the Brixton Review of Books, and Words Without Borders, among others. She is based in Paris.

Harry Morales is a Spanish literary translator. His translations include the work of Mario Benedetti, Julio Cortázar, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Eugenio María de Hostos, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Juan Rulfo, Alberto Ruy-Sánchez, Ilan Stavans, and Francisco Proaño Arandi, among many other distinguished Latin American writers.

A graduate of UC Berkeley, Renée Morel teaches French and linguistics at City College of San Francisco and lectures extensively on French civilization from the Gauls to de Gaulle. She also works as a translator and editor and has published articles in Traverses, The French Review, and other literary publications.

Ainsley Morse teaches in the Russian department at Dartmouth College and is a translator of Russian, Ukrainian, and former Yugoslav literatures. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the postwar Soviet period, particularly unofficial or “underground” poetry, as well as contemporary russophone poetry, East European avant-gardes, and children’s literature.

Maryam Mortaz is an Iranian American writer and translator. Her work has been published in such journals as Bomb, New Review of Literature, and Callaloo. She is a trained psychotherapist in New York City.

Cheryl Moskowitz is a US-born, UK-based poet, novelist, and playwright and was a lecturer at Sussex University where she taught creative writing and personal development at the graduate level from 1996 to 2010. Her publications include a novel, Wyoming Trail (Granta, 1998), and the poetry collection The Girl Is Smiling (Circle Time Press, 2012). She was a prizewinner in the 2010 Bridport and Troubadour Poetry Competitions and the 2011 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.

Amy Motlagh is the translator of The Space Between Us, by Zoya Pirzad, and the author of Burying the Beloved. She teaches at UC Davis.

Dipika Mukherjee’s work, focusing on the politics of modern Asian societies, includes the novels Ode to Broken Things (longlisted for the Man Asia Literary Prize) and Shambala Junction (which won the UK Virginia Prize for Fiction). She has been mentoring Southeast Asian writers for over two decades and has edited five anthologies of Southeast Asian fiction. She is a contributing editor for Jaggery and serves as core faculty at StoryStudio Chicago and teaches at the Graham School at University of Chicago.

Colleen Mullen studied English literature and Spanish at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. After earning her bachelor’s degree in 2010, she continued to develop her affinity for Spanish while teaching English in Spain. Colleen works full-time as a writer for the Texas Legislative Council and volunteers as a Spanish-to-English translator for the Rainforest Partnership. She resides in her hometown of Austin, Texas.

Translator Lisa Mullenneaux

Lisa Mullenneaux is the author of Naples’ Little Women: The Fiction of Elena Ferrante and has reviewed Ferrante’s La Frantumaglia for WLT. She teaches writing for the University of Maryland UC.

Robin Munby is a freelance translator from Liverpool, based in Madrid. His translations have appeared in the Glasgow Review of Books, Wasafiri, Subtropics, and the Cambridge Literary Review, and he has written for Reading in Translation and Asymptote. He is currently learning Asturian.

Pablo Landeo Muñoz writes poetry and short fiction and is the founding editor of the Atuqpa Chupan literary magazine. In 2018 he was awarded the Peruvian National Prize for Literature in Indigenous Languages for his Quechua-language novel Aqupampa.

Mark Mussari earned his PhD in Scandinavian languages and literature from the University of Washington. He has translated Danish novels, short stories, and nonfiction for numerous publishers. His recent works include translations of Erik Valeur’s novel The Man in the Lighthouse and Michael Müller’s Børge Mogensen: Simplicity and Function. Mussari is also the author of Danish Modern: Between Art and Design (Bloomsbury, 2016). 

Robin Myers is a Mexico City–based translator and poet. She was among the winners of the 2019 Poem in Translation Contest (Words Without Borders / Academy of American Poets). Recent book-length translations include The Restless Dead, by Cristina Rivera Garza (Vanderbilt University Press, forthcoming); Cars on Fire, by Mónica Ramón Ríos (Open Letter, 2020); Animals at the End of the World, by Gloria Susana Esquivel (University of Texas Press, 2020); and Lyric Poetry Is Dead, by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg (Cardboard House, 2018).

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André Naffis-Sahely’s debut collection of poetry, The Promised Land, will be published by Penguin in 2017. He has translated works by Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Alessandro Spina, Rashid Boudjedra, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and Abdellatif Laâbi, among various others.

Shahla Naghiyeva is a professor of literature and translation studies at the Azerbaijan University of Languages.

Nancy Roberts is a freelance Arabic-to-English translator and editor. Her most recent literary translations are The Slave Yards, by Najwa Bin Shatwan (2020); The Night Will Have Its Say, by Ibrahim al-Koni (2022); and They Fell Like Stars from the Sky & Other Stories, by Sheikha Helawy (2023).