Mirgul Kali translates from her native Kazakh. Her translations of short stories by classic and contemporary Kazakh authors appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Electric Literature, Exchanges, The Massachusetts Review, and other publications. She is a recipient of the 2018-2019 American Literary Translators Association's Emerging Translator Mentorship and co-founder of Turkoslavia, a collective of translators working from Turkic and Slavic languages.