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Dorothy Trench Bonett is the translator of Alexandre Dumas père’s Charles 
VII at the Homes of His Great Vassals (Noble Press, 1990) and of Broad Sea 
and Empty Sky, China’s First Great Modern Poet, Xu Zhimo (Floating World 
Editions, 2021). Her translations of Xu Zhimo, some of which have previously 
appeared in Delos, have won the Silver Willow Leaf Translation Award at the 
Sixth Xu Zhimo Poetry and Art Festival in 2020, as well as Honorable Men-
tion in 2006 for the New England Poetry Club’s Der Hovanessian Prize. Her 
other publications include Repairing the Sky, a collection of Chinese fairy 
tales.

Geoffrey Brock is the author of three volumes of poetry, the editor of The 
FSG Book of 20th- Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of numerous 
books of poetry and prose from Italian, most recently Last Dream by Giovanni 
Pascoli and Allegria by Giuseppe Ungaretti. He teaches in the MFA Program 
in creative writing and translation at the University of Arkansas.

Paul Melo e Castro lectures in Portuguese and comparative literature at the 
University of Glasgow. He is a regular translator of literature from across the 
Portuguese- speaking world. His latest book- length translation is Monsoon by 
Vimala Devi (Seagull, 2019).

Srinjay Chakravarti is a writer, editor, and translator based in Salt Lake City, 
Calcutta, India. A former journalist with The Financial Times Group, he has 
worked on the editorial staff of an international online financial news service. 
He was educated at St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, and at universities based in 
Calcutta and New Delhi. University degrees: BSc (Economics honors), MA 
(English). His creative writing, including poetry, short fiction, and translations, 
has appeared in over 150 publications in 30- odd countries. His translations 
and versions of Bangla poetry and prose have earlier appeared in Metamor-
phoses, Offcourse Literary Journal, The Cafe Irreal, Kyoto Journal, Horizon 
Review, and elsewhere. His first book of poems Occam’s Razor (Writers Work-
shop, Calcutta: 1994) received the Salt Literary Award from Salt, the Austra-
lian literary and publishing organization headed by writer and academic John 
Kinsella, in 1995. He has won one of the top prizes (US $7,500) in the Doro-
thy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Poetry Competition 2007– 8. His journalistic 

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columns on the editorial pages of The Telegraph and Indian Express have 
ranged from the arcana of Kondratiev cycles to the darker matters of astrophys-
ics. He is married and has a son, Arinjay. Website: www . srinjaychakravarti . com.

Anna Chiafele is an associate professor of Italian studies at Auburn Univer-
sity, in Alabama. Her monograph Sfumature di giallo nell’opera di Luigi 
Malerba was published by Rubbettino in 2016. Chiafele has published schol-
arly articles on Luigi Malerba, Massimo Carlotto, Elisabetta Bucciarelli, Ugo 
Riccarelli, and Antonio Scurati. Her articles appear in Italica, Quaderni di 
Italianistica, Rivista di Studi Italiani, and Ecozon@. Her most recent interests 
focus on Italian climate fiction in conjunction with material ecocriticism. With 
Lisa Pike, she has translated three other short stories by Luigi Malerba (Colum-
bia Journal, Journal of Italian Translation, and Delos Fall 2020), and Silvana 
La Spina’s 1998 novel Penelope (Bordighera Press, 2021).

Quan Manh Ha is Professor of American Literature & Ethnic Studies at the 
University of Montana. His research interests include multiethnic US litera-
tures, Vietnam War literature, critical race theory, and literary translation. His 
first book, Other Moons: Vietnamese Stories of the American War and Its 
Aftermath, is published with Columbia University Press (2020).

Benjamin Hebblethwaite, currently associate professor at the University of 
Florida, has a PhD in French linguistics from Indiana University (2007). He is 
the lead author of Vodou Songs in Haitian Creole and English (Temple Univer-
sity Press, 2012) and Yon sezon matchyavèl/Une saison en enfer (L’Harmattan, 
2010), with Jacques Pierre. Stirring the Pot of Haitian History, edited with 
Mariana Past, and his edited and translated edition of Michel- Rolph Trouil-
lot’s (1977) Haitian Creole historical work, Ti dife boule sou istwa Ayiti, 
appeared in 2021 (Liverpool University Press). His new book, A Transatlantic 
History of Haitian Vodou, is forthcoming in October 2021 (University Press of 
Mississippi).

Victor M. Jordán- Orozco is a senior lecturer and coordinator of the Spanish 
Heritage Program at the University of Florida. He currently teaches creative 
writing as well as language classes for heritage learners. He enjoys writing 
short stories and poetry. He has published four collections of poems: TREM-
ORES (2007), Amores: De la pasión a la nostalgia (2014), Re/fracciones: 
Cantos y cánticos desde acá (2017), and De gota a gota (2019), and a collec-
tion of short stories: Provocaciones: Relatos breves (2015).

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J. Kates is a poet and literary translator who lives in Fitzwilliam, New 
Hampshire.

Dragan Kujundžić is professor of Jewish studies at the University of Florida 
with teaching affiliations in film and media studies, Germanic and Slavic stud-
ies, and religion. Apart from numerous edited volumes, such as Baktinsky 
sbornik 1 and 2 (1991, 1993, in Russian), on Jacques Derrida (2000, 2009) 
and J. Hillis Miller (2005) and documentary films on Alexander Sokurov 
(2016) and Sergey Shnurov (2017), his publications include the monographs 
Critical Exercises (1983), The Returns of History (1997), Tongue in Heat 
(2003), and Out of Interculturality (2016). His film, The First Sail: J. Hillis 
Miller (2011) has been released together with the film- book (Kujundžić, Hillis 
Miller, et. al., 2015).

Dominick Lawton is a PhD candidate in Slavic languages and literatures at 
the University of California, Berkeley. His interests include modern Russian 
and Yugoslav literatures. His current research focuses on the poetics of mate-
rialism, and the relationship between material objects and literature, in Rus-
sian and early Soviet revolutionary culture. His work has been published in 
the journal qui parle and the volume Comintern Aesthetics, ed. Amelia M. 
Glaser and Steven S. Lee (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020).

Stuart Lyons was a major scholar in Classics at King’s College, Cambridge, 
where he is now a Fellow Commoner. His translations of Horace, republished 
as Horace’s Odes and the Mystery of Do- re- mi, were named a Financial Times 
book of the year. His verse translations of Xu Zhimo appear in Xu Zhimo in 
Cambridge (2021), available from communications@kings . cam . ac . uk.

Armine Kotin Mortimer, PhD, holds an NEA Translation Fellowship for 
2020, and she has received the rank of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes aca-
démiques in recognition of her distinguished work on behalf of French cul-
ture. The author of numerous scholarly publications, she has translated 
three French books: The Enchanted Clock by Julia Kristeva and Mysterious 
Mozart and Casanova the Irresistible by Philippe Sollers. Her translation of 
An Impossible Love by Christine Angot is forthcoming this Fall, and she 
translated approximately 130,000 words by and about Julia Kristeva in a 
large volume on her work published this year. Excerpts from seventeen other 
literary translations have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, 
The Cossack Review, Asymptote, Black Sun Lit, The Peacock Journal, The 

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Critical Flame, The Northwest Review, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Lunch 
Ticket, Transference, carte blanche, Another Chicago Magazine, LIT Maga-
zine, and AGNI. Armine Kotin Mortimer translates literary fiction and non-
fiction from French, with a special focus on contemporary authors.

Among modern Italian poets, Lisa Mullenneaux has translated Anna Maria 
Carpi, Amelia Rosselli, Patrizia Cavalli, and Alfonso Gatto, as well as Maria 
Attanasio. She is the author of Naples’ Little Women: The Fiction of Elena 
Ferrante, lives in Manhattan, and teaches writing for the University of Mary-
land UC. More at http:// umuc . academia . edu / LisaMullenneaux.

Philip Pardi is the author of Meditations on Rising and Falling (University of 
Wisconsin Press), which won the Brittingham Prize and the Writers’ League of 
Texas Award for Poetry. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in 
American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Hotel Amerika, Seneca Review, 
Translation Review, and in anthologies such as An Introduction to the Prose 
Poem and Best New Poets. His most recent project, completed with the support 
of a Literature Grant from the NEA, is a volume of translations titled A Better 
Language: Selected Poems of Claudia Lars. He teaches at Bard College.

Lisa Pike holds her PhD in comparative literature. She has worked and studied 
in Italy and France, and currently resides in Canada. Her fiction and poetry have 
appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including CV2, The New 
Quarterly, Riddle Fence, Re: Generations: Canadian Women Poets in Conversa-
tion, and VIA: Voices in Italian Americana. She is the author of poetry chapbook 
Policeman’s Alley, and the novel My Grandmother’s Pill (Guernica Editions). 
With Anna Chiafele, she has translated three other short stories by Luigi Malerba 
(Columbia Journal, Journal of Italian Translation, and Delos Fall 2020), and Sil-
vana La Spina’s 1998 novel Penelope (Bordighera Press, 2021).

Patrick Ploschnitzki is a visiting assistant professor of German language and 
culture at the University of Florida’s Department of Languages, Literatures, 
and Cultures. He holds a dual- degree PhD in transcultural German studies 
from the Universities of Arizona and Leipzig. His research investigates dis-
courses around dubbing and dubbese related to US- American television trans-
lated for broadcast in German- speaking countries. Other research interests 
include the use of online translation tools in the language classroom, as well 
as connections between popular media and literary traditions, such as rede-
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also translates contemporary German, Swiss, and Austrian literature into 
English.

Marc Silberman is emeritus professor of German at the University of 
Wisconsin- Madison where he also taught in the film studies and critical theater 
studies programs from 1989 until 2016. He received his BA in German and 
French from the University of Minnesota (1969) and his MA and PhD in Ger-
man and comparative literature from Indiana University (1975). His research 
and publications have focused on East German literature, the tradition of politi-
cal theater in Germany, and the history of German cinema. He has held guest 
professorships at UCLA, Freie Universität Berlin, Albert- Ludwigs- Universität 
Freiburg, University of Oxford, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Universi-
dad de Valencia in Spain. He also has translated texts by Bertolt Brecht, Heiner 
Müller, Thomas Köck, Gert Neumann, Jochen Berg, and Herbert Achtern-
busch. Homepage: https://gns.wisc.edu/staff/silberman-marc/. 

Cab Tran was born in Vietnam and emigrated to the U.S. as an infant. He 
holds an MFA from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program, 
and has received fellowships from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, 
England; the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation in Sofia, Bulgaria; and the Writ-
ers’ and Translators’ Centre in Rhodes, Greece. His fiction has appeared in 
Black Warrior Review, Vagabond: Bulgaria’s English Monthly, Parcel, Ole-
ander Review, and elsewhere. His first novel about French- occupied Vietnam, 
The Naturalist, is forthcoming. He lives in Missoula, Montana.

Peter Sean Woltemade holds an MA in Scandinavian languages and litera-
tures and a PhD in German from the University of California at Berkeley. He 
translates from German and Swedish as well as from Danish and is the trans-
lator of twenty- two published books, the most recently published of which is 
his translation of Anna Ullman’s history of Roskilde Festival, The Last Dream-
ers (Copenhagen: Gads Forlag, 2020). In addition to having translated vari-
ous texts by Thomas Boberg, including Africana in its entirety, he has 
translated literary texts by Karl- Heinz Ott, Maja Elverkilde, Julia Butschkow, 
and Adda Djørup. His work has appeared in Asymptote Journal, B O D Y, Bor-
der Crossing, Columbia Journal, Exchanges, K1N, Mayday Magazine, New-
found, Pusteblume, Storm Cellar, The Brooklyn Rail, The Cossack Review, The 
Literary Review, The Missing Slate, and Wilderness House Literary Review. 
He lives in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen.

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