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Sylvie Blum- Reid is a professor of French and film at the University of Flor-
ida. She is the author of East- West Encounters: Franco- Asian Cinema and Lit-
erature (London: Wallflower Press, 2003), and Traveling in French Cinema 
(Palgrave/MacMillan, 2015). Her research and teaching interests include lit-
erature, travel narratives, photography, 1930s cinema and culture in France, 
expatriate female artists in the interwar period, culinary practices, and cre-
ative writing. She is currently offering a new class in Writing and Transla-
tion. She is a member of ALCS, a union of writers in Great Britain.

Annette C. Boehm is a bilingual poet and scholar from Germany. She is the 
author of the poetry collection The Knowledge Weapon (Bare Fiction Press, 
2016) as well as the chapbook The Five Parts of Love: Confabulating Sappho 
(Dancing Girl Press, 2012). She serves as poetry reader for Memorious: A 
Journal of New Verse and Fiction and is a graduate of the Center for Writers 
at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Dorothy Trench Bonett is the translator of Charles VII at the Homes of His 
Great Vassals by Alexandre Dumas père (Noble Press, 1990). Her transla-
tions of Xu Zhimo have previously appeared in Delos, and she won an Hon-
orable Mention in 2006 for the New England Poetry Club’s Der Hovanessian 
Prize. She is currently seeking a publisher for Broad Sea and Empty Sky, a 
collection of translations of Xu Zhimo’s poetry which includes essays on his 
life and works.

Alex Cigale’s first full book, Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writ-
ings, came out in the Northwestern World Classics series in 2017. In 2015, he 
was awarded an NEA Fellowship in Literary Translation for his work on the 
poet of “the St. Petersburg philological school,” Mikhail Eremin. His own 
poems in English have appeared in The Colorado Review, The Common 
Online, and The Literary Review, and translations of classic and contempo-
rary Russian poetry in Harvard Review Online, The Hopkins Review, Kenyon 
Review Online, Modern Poetry in Translation, New England Review, Tri-
Quarterly, Two Lines, Words Without Borders, and World Literature Today. He 
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and is currently a lecturer in Russian Literature and Language at Queens 
College, CUNY.

David L. Cooper is an associate professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana- 
Champaign, and a specialist in both Czech and Russian literatures. His research 
is in the areas of nationalism in literature, forgery and mystification, transla-
tion history and translation studies, and history of criticism. His monograph 
Creating the Nation: Identity and Aesthetics in Early Nineteenth- Century 
Russia and Bohemia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2010) examined the 
emergence of the new paradigm of “national literature” and the role of liter-
ary intellectuals in developing new conceptions of national identity. David has 
published translations of Slovak folktales and poetry and is currently com-
pleting a new translated edition of the poems of the Czech nineteenth- century 
forged manuscripts. His current book project, under the working title of The 
Czech Forged Manuscripts: Poetics, Faith, and Scholarship, examines this 
notorious case of literary forgery for what it can contribute to ongoing schol-
arly reevaluations of forgery in literature and history.

Jean Harris is a novelist and translator who lives in Bucharest, Romania. 
She holds a PhD in British and American literature from Rutgers University 
(1983) and has published fiction, literary criticism, and psychoanalytic stud-
ies including The Roots of Artifice: A Study in Literary Creativity with Jay 
Harris (Human Sciences Press, 1981) and The One- Eyed Doctor: Psycho-
logical Origins of Freud’s Works with Jay Harris (Jason Aronson, 1984). She 
is the 2007– 2008 winner of the University of California, Irvine’s Interna-
tional Center for Writing and Translation’s annual translation grant for her 
translation of Ştefan Bănulescu’s “Mistreţii erau blazi.” She directed The 
Observer Translation Project (http:  //translations  .obervatorcultural  .ro) which 
translated Romanian fiction into 7 + languages monthly in 2008– 2009. She 
was the 2010 guest editor of Absinthe 13: Spotlight on Romania and her trans-
lations have appeared in The Guardian, The Review of Contemporary Fic-
tion, Words Without Borders, Jewish Fiction, Salmagundi, Best European 
Fiction, Habitus: a Diaspora Journal, and Yale’s Margellos World Republic 
of Letters series. New Directions published her translation of Norman 
Manea’s Captives in 2014. Her translation of The Confession, a play by Tati-
ana Niculescu Bran, will form the libretto for an opera (in composition) by 
Jeremy Gill. Her translation of Igor Bergler’s novel The Lost Bible (Editura 
Rao) is under contract with Trident Media. She is currently translating W by 
Stelian Tanase.

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Lola Haskins has published twelve books of poetry and three of prose. Her 
work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Christian Science Monitor, The Lon-
don Review of Books, Beloit Poetry Journal, Georgia Review, Southern Review, 
and elsewhere, and has been featured by two US Poet Laureates— Billy Collins 
and Ted Kooser— and appeared on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. In addition, 
her poetry and commentaries have been broadcast on BBC and NPR. Among 
Ms. Haskins’ honors are the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEAs, two Florida Book 
Awards, four Florida state arts fellowships, and the Emily Dickinson prize 
from the Poetry Society of America. She has recently been named Honorary 
Chancellor of the Florida State Poets Association.

Victor M. Jordán- Orozco is a senior lecturer and coordinator of Beginner’s 
Spanish II at the University of Florida. He teaches language and literature 
classes at the undergraduate level, which include courses on Colombia, his 
country of birth, and on the culture and civilization of Spanish America. Film is 
an integral part of these courses. He enjoys writing short stories and poetry. 
He has published three collections of poems: TREMORES (2007), Amores: de 
la passion a la nostalgia (2014), and Re/fracciones: cantos y cánticos desde 
acá (2017), and a collection of short stories: Provocaciones: relatos breves 
(2015).

Tsipi Keller was born in Prague, raised in Israel, studied in Paris, and has 
been living in the U.S. since 1974. Novelist and translator and the author of 
eleven books, she is the recipient of several literary awards, including National 
Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships, New York Foundation for 
the Arts Fiction grants, and an Armand G. Erpf Translation Award from 
Columbia University. Her translations have appeared in literary journals and 
anthologies in the U.S. and in Europe, as well as in The Posen Library of Jew-
ish Culture and Civilization (Yale University Press, 2012). Her most recent 
translation collections are: Erez Bitton’s You Who Cross My Path (BOA Edi-
tions, 2015), and David Avidan’s Futureman (Phoneme Media, 2017). Cur-
rently, she is translating The Diaries of Lea Goldberg, published by Sifriat 
Poalim-Hakibbutz Hameuchad in 2005.

Daniel Kennedy is an Irish- born translator currently based in Rennes, France. 
He is a two- time translation fellow at the Yiddish Book Center, and his trans-
lations from the Yiddish have appeared in Pakn Treger and In Geveb. He is a 
founding editor of Farlag Press, a non- profit collective specializing in smaller 
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Dr. Maria Khotimsky is a lecturer and Russian language coordinator in the 
Department of Global Studies and Languages at the Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology. Her research interests include the history of literary transla-
tion in Russia, the Silver Age of Russian Literature, contemporary Russian 
poetry, and literary institutions. Her recent work includes articles and confer-
ence talks on the ideology of translation in the Soviet Union, and the poetics 
of translation in the works of several leading twentieth- century Russian poets. 
She is a co- editor (together with Stephanie Sandler, Margarita Krimmel, and 
Oleg Novikov) of an anthology of articles devoted to Olga Sedakova’s poetics 
(forthcoming, University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).

Elizabeth Lowe translates from Spanish and Portuguese. Her translations of 
Brazilian fiction were recognized by a lifetime achievement award from the 
Brazilian Academy of Letters and her translation of J.P. Cuenca’s novel, The 
Only Happy Ending for a Love Story is an Accident, was on the long list for 
the 2015 IMPAC award. She is professor of Translation Studies at New York 
University and founder of the Center for Translation Studies at the University 
of Illinois.

Derick Mattern holds an MFA in literary translation from the Iowa Transla-
tion Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow, and another in poetry from 
the University of Wisconsin- Madison. An NEA fellow in literary translation, 
his translations of Haydar Ergülen’s work have appeared widely, in World Lit-
erature Today, Modern Poetry in Translation, Asymptote, and elsewhere.

Azade Seyhan is the Fairbank Professor in the Humanities and Professor of 
German and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College. She has published 
and lectured widely on German Romanticism and Idealism, Heinrich Heine, 
exile literature, critical theory, and Turkish literature. Her most recent book 
is Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative 
Context (New York: MLA, 2008), which was translated into Turkish in 2014.


