Kaija Straumanis is an award-winning translator from Latvian and editorial director at Open Letter Books. Her published translations include works by Inga Ābele, Zigmunds Skujinš, Jānis Jonevs, and Gundega Repše, among others. Her current projects include Forest Daughters (Meža Meitas, ed. Sanita Reinsone), for which she received a 2020 NEA Literatures in Translation fellowship, and The River by Laura Vinogradova (forthcoming next year from Open Letter Books), one of three titles in Open Letter's 2024 Translator Triptych, which Straumanis also curated.

Jamie Richards is a literary translator from Italian, with occasional forays into Spanish, Greek, and German. Born and raised in suburban Los Angeles, she earned her BA in English from Scripps College, with a semester's study at Temple University, Rome and went on to complete an MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon. She is the recipient of a 2021 NEA translation grant to translate the neglected Italian classic, Dolores Prato's Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno, which is still in the works, alongside a number of other projects.

Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Her full-length translations include novels and graphic narrative by Manuel Vilas, Tomás González, Jorge Franco, Santiago Gamboa, Inês Pedrosa, Aura Xilonen, Juan Gómez Bárcena, Paco Roca, Ana Penyas, and Marcelo D'Salete. Her translation of Aura Xilonen's novel The Gringo Champion (Europa Editions) was selected as runner-up for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute's 2021 Translation Prize, her translation of Tomás González's novel Difficult Light (Archipelago Books) was shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Prose, and two of her translations of graphic narrative have won Eisner Awards. She has enjoyed residencies at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and the Europäisches Übersetzer-Kollegium.

Alana Marie Levinson-Labrosse is an Assistant Professor in the English department at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, where she founded the department in 2011. She earned her PhD in Kurdish Studies at the University of Exeter, specializing in nineteenth century poetry. A poet and translator, her book-length works include Kajal Ahmed's Handful of Salt (The Word Works, 2016) and Abdulla Pashew's Dictionary of Midnight Translation, Words Without Borders, In Other Words (British Center for Literary Translation), Sewanne Review, The Iowa Review, and World Literature Today. She currently serves as the Founding Director of Kashkul, the center for arts and culture at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, as a board member for Zheen Archive in Sulaimani, and as Interim Director for Sulaimani City of Literature, having led the city's successful application to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

Jennifer Croft works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. With the author Olga Tokarczuk, she was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Flights. Croft is the recipient of Cullman, Fulbright, PEN, MacDowell, and National Endowment for the Arts grants and fellowships, as well as the inaugural Michael Henry Heim Prize for Translation and a Tin House Workshop Scholarship for her memoir Homesick, to be released in September.

Katrina Dodson is the translator from the Portuguese of the Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector (New Directions, 2015), winner of the 2016 PEN Translation Prize, the American Translators Association Lewis Galantière Prize, and a Northern California Book Award. She is currently adapting her Lispector translation journal into a book and translating the 1928 Brazilian modernist classic, Macunaíma, the Hero Without a Character, by Mário de Andrade (New Directions, 2019). Dodson recently edited a new translation of Ana Cristina Cesar’s poetry collection A teus pés (Parlor Press, 2018). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil and a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, & Sexuality. Dodson has taught Comparative Literature and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. She was also a mentor at the Mills College MFA in Translation Program and on the faculty of the Bard College Language & Thinking Program. She has spent over four years in Brazil, first as an English teacher in 2003 and later as a Fulbright scholar. Dodson was born in San Francisco to a Vietnamese mother and American father and now lives in New York.

Lisa Katz's translations include Late Beauty: a bilingual selection of the poetry of Tuvia Ruebner, (with S. Bram) Zephyr Press (2017);  Suddenly the Sight of War: nationalism and violence in Hebrew poetry of the 1940s by Hannan Hever,Stanford (2016); Approaching You in English: a bilingual selection of the poetry of Admiel Kosman  (with S. Naim-Naor) Zephyr (2011); Look There: New and Selected Poems of Agi Mishol  Graywolf  (2006). Editor of the Israeli pages of the Poetry International Rotterdam web site for world poetry, her translations have appeared recently in Poetry, MPT, Guernica,Consequence, World Literature in Translation and the New York Times. She is the author of a chapbook, Are You With Me, Finishing Line (2016) and Reconstruction, a volume of her poetry in Hebrew translation, Am Oved (2008); also in 2008, she was awarded the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize and a Ledig House International Writers Residency.  Katz taught literary translation at Hebrew University for a decade and most recently at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Spring 2017. Born in New York, she studied at the University of Michigan (BA English) and the City College of New York (MA Creative Writing), receiving a PhD (on the poetry of Sylvia Plath) from the English Department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she has lived since 1983.

Katherine Silver has been translating mostly Latin American literature for over thirty years. She has translated and published more than thirty books and countless other texts, many of which have been honored by critical acclaim, awards, prizes, and other recognitions. Her most recent and forthcoming translations include works by Martín Caparrós, Julio Cortázar, Daniel Sada, Horacio Castellanos Moya, and César Aira. Throughout her career she has also translated plays, screenplays—some for major motion pictures—and a wide assortment of academic and other nonfiction books. In a former life, she taught English as a Second Language in the U.S. and around the world. For many years, she worked in publishing as an editor and editorial manager, and still does editorial and consulting work with several publishers. For several years she has led weekend workshops at the Yiddish Book Center and served as a mentor to their fellows. She just recently stepped down as director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre in Alberta, Canada, where she still serves on the advisory council. She lives in Berkeley, California, and has two children, aged 24 and 21.