American Literary Translators Association
@littranslate
ALTA promotes literary translation through advocacy, education and services to literary translators.
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Powell's Books
@powells
The legendary independent bookstore.
WordsWithoutBorders
@wwborders
The home for international literature. We are no longer posting here. Find us on Bluesky: wwborders.bsky.social
frank wynne 🏳️🌈
@terribleman
@terribleman.com where skies are blue. slowly moving away from here. still check in, but not posting here
Lin King 金翎
@linkinglionking
Writer + translator; speaks English + Mandarin + Japanese; from Taipei + New York
Jack Saebyok Jung 정새벽
@daybreakjung
NEA Translation 2024 / Yi Sang (2020, @WavePoetry) / Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus (2025, Black Square Editions) / Assistant Professor of English @DavidsonCollege
Saskia Vogel
@saskiavogel
from L.A., in Berlin. Writing and translating "disrobers of the misogynist regalia"
CERCLL - UArizona
@cercll
Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language & Literacy, a US Department of Education-funded Language Resource Center at the U of AZ. RT/❤≠ endorsement
National Book Critics Circle
@bookcritics
Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature since 1974.
Los Angeles Review
@lareview
divergent, West Coast literature
Ammara Ahmad
@ammarawrites
Journalist & Writer. Breaking news & writer’s block daily. Chasing stories with chai in hand. Opinions hotter than Lahore’s summers. Punjabi language activist.
VermontStudioCenter
@vtstudiocenter
VSC is an international residency program in the U.S., hosting visual artists and writers each month from across the country and around the world.
I am a fool.
@shriiram
MFA Poetry @BoiseState_CW. MA Poetry @MAPoetryQUB. Associate Poetry Editor @poetrynw
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social
@arablit
ALQ & Books: arablit.org * Reader-supported: patreon.com/arablit, arablit.gumroad.com * FIND US AT @arablit.bsky.social
Anton Hur
@antonhur
Translator, author. TOWARD ETERNITY (@HarperViaBooks, 2024). Rep: @thesafae @rcwlitagency. Member @smoking_tigers. Korean citizen. 🌈 He/they
Afsar Mohammad
@afsartelugu
writer and faculty at the university of Pennsylvania. upenn.academia.edu/AfsarMohammad
the song cave
@thesongcave
books, chapbooks, art prints - poetry, translation, art writing
EST
@estrans
EST, the European Society for Translation Studies, is an international society of translation and interpreting scholars.
Jenny Bhatt
@jennybhatt
Author. Literary Translator. Writing Instructor. NEA Fellow (Translation; 2025.) Ph.D. Student @UTDallasArts. Founder @DesiBooks.
Asymptote Journal
@asymptotejrnl
The premier site for world literature. London Book Fair Award winner. Free quarterly issues, daily blog. Sign up for newsletters: tinyurl.com/asymptoteme
Susan Bernofsky
@translationista
Out now: PAUL CELAN AND THE TRANS-TIBETAN ANGEL by Yoko Tawada // translationista.bsky.social // She/her
deborah smith 🍉 durga ki maa
@videshi_beti
writing, dissociating ~ translations from 🇰🇷 (Han Kang, Bae Suah, Kim Haeja) in my fandom era prev @TiltedAxisPress autistic 언니
Erin Riddle
@erinriddle
translator, editor, writer, educator
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
@micromaf
Author. Translator. Publisher. Founder @PakSpellingBee, @StorykitProgram, @UrduThesaurus, @HijjayGame Founder and Series Editor urduclassics.com
ATASpanishLangDiv
@ataspanishdiv
Communicating, informing, and serving its members in specific fields of interest related to translation and/or interpretation.
Book Riot
@bookriot
The largest independent literary site in North America, bringing you news, bookish commentary, and recs for readers of all stripes.
Zoë Perry
@zaptranslations
#amtranslating Juliana Leite; Veronica Stigger; Carol Bensimon; Natália Timerman | @StarlingBureau | Kentuckian but also Canadian
Takami Nieda
@tnieda
Instructor at Seattle Central College and Translator: The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart, GO, Finger Bone, etc. Coming soon: THE LUCKY RIDE
Will Forrester
@official_foz
Writer/editor | Head of Literature Programmes @EnglishPEN | Board @WritersUntold | Expert @europe_creative | Clore Emerging Leader | views own, he/him
Morgan Giles モーガン・ジャイルズ
@wrongsreversed
Translator. Keep cool but care. 和英文芸翻訳家。柳美里『JR上野駅公園口』『８月の果て』、高瀬純子『おいしいごはん』、宇野千代『生きて行く私』など
Adrian Nathan West
@a_nathanwest
Nate, not Adrian. Author of My Father's Diet. Essayist & critic. Translator of Hermann Burger, Marianne Fritz, Rainald Goetz & others.
U of Wisconsin Press
@uwiscpress
Publisher of books and journals (scholarly, literary, and regional), at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (We are not the UW news/PR office)
British Centre for Literary Translation
@bcltuea
The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) is a research centre at University of East Anglia focused on the study and support of literary translation.
Denise Kripper
@denisekripper
Translation Editor @LatAmLitToday, Author @RoutledgeLing, Bilingual Literary Translator 🇦🇷🇺🇸 @ChaiEditora @BooksVeliz, Founding Member @TCTC_Chicago
Jen Calleja
@niewview
FAIR & VEHICLE (@PrototypePubs); GOBLINHOOD (@RoughTradeBooks); DUST SUCKER (Makina Books); translator of German-language lit, co-publisher @PrasparPress.
Jenny Croft
@jenniferlcroft
writer | translator | friend | out now: THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY @BloomsburyPub | HOMESICK @unnamedpress/@CharcoPress | up next: STILL LIFE WITH POSTCARDS
Ibrahim Fawzy | إبراهيم فوزي
@ibrahimsayedf1
Wijhat 2023 grantee @culture_res; 2022 Arabic mentee @WritersCentre; @EnglishPEN winner; 2024 ALTA travel fellow @LitTranslate; 2024 Fellow @theafricainst
Ági Bori Mottern
@agiborimottern
Literary translator: Hungarian ↔️ English. PDX ✈️ Budapest. Russian language enthusiast. Я за мир. 🇺🇦 Translation editor @LAReview 📖
Marialena Carr
@marialenacarr
Once oceanographer, now writer & translator. Stories of weavers & botanists, circuses & spies, physicists & ghosts. I translate poetry from Catalan.
Jennifer Shyue
@jshyue
translator & tea lover /// words @aaww @AGNIMagazine @lithub @wwborders &c /// books: bit.ly/Vice-Roy, bit.ly/KatzuoN, bit.ly/BlindSalmon
Robin Myers
@robinepmyers
Poetranslator // Out in 2025: WE ARE GREEN AND TREMBLING by @Cabezoncamara (@NewDirections) // poemperdiem.substack.com // she/ella
Center for the Art of Translation
@catranslation
CAT champions literary translation: @TwoLinesPress, Poetry Inside Out language arts program, and events. Find us on Bluesky: catranslation.bsky.social
Tilted Axis
@tiltedaxispress
Translations from Asia + Africa. We are: @kv_alfaro @abbaskins Trà My Hickin, Amandine Forest, @phuonganh2513, @mayadamayadamay & Julia Sanches.
Suzana Vuljevic, Ph.D.
@suzana_vu_go
Historian, Writer, Literary Translator, Editor | Translates Albanian and Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian (BCMS) | Teaches at DePaul University
Brianna Renee
@moiaussi_bri
Literary translator || UCM Traducción || UW Spanish || 🕊 🍉 'til it's backward || “Uncertainty in meaning is incipient poetry” – B. F.
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
@warwickprizewit
A book prize celebrating writing by women translated into English. From @SCAPVC. Tweets by @Holly_Langstaff.
GlobalLiteratureinLibrariesInitiative
@globallitin
#WorldKidLit #WIT #IntlYALit #GLLITranslatedYABookPrize Shop here: bookshop.org/shop/globallit…
UW Translation Studies Hub
@uw_translation
The University of Washington Translation Studies Hub works to promote translation on campus and beyond through events, faculty & graduate research, and courses.
Queen Sofía Spanish Institute
@qssi_ny
Enriching American knowledge about the cultures & legacy of the Spanish-speaking world one tweet at a time
Sung Ryu 🕯
@sungarooo
Korean 💘 English translator. Member of @smoking_tigers
World Poetry Books
@worldpoetrybook
World Poetry is a nonprofit publisher of poetry in translation founded in 2017 and based in New York City. See all our books at worldpoetrybooks.com.
Nguyễn An Lý
@nguyen_anly
Tech grunt for @zzzreview.
Michelle Mirabella
@mirabellam_
Translator SPA-ENG | Forthcoming debut from @WorldEdBooks| Translations in @worldlittoday, @LaTamLitToday, @thearkint, @SouthwestReview, etc
Shabnam Nadiya
@nadiya_shabnam
Writer. Translator. Mother. Other.
M Lynx Qualey
@mlynxqualey
Priyamvada
@priyamvada_ram
Literary translator (Tamil-Eng) | 2023 PEN/Heim grant winner | 2023 NTA (prose) finalist | Co-founder @mozhispaces tinyurl.com/y4a3deuj
Boris Dralyuk
@borisdralyuk
My Hollywood & Other Poems @PaulDryBooks; translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks, @TheTLS, etc.; teach @utulsa; EiC @NimrodJournal
Ena Selimović
@enaselimo
translator | writer | editor | co-founder @turkoslaviaco | @NEAarts translation fellow | doctorate in comparative literature | ig@yugaduga
Yanai Initiative
@yanaiinitiative
The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities: UCLA & Waseda University reimagining the Japanese humanities for the world.
Regina Galasso
@reginajgalasso
Veliz Books
@booksveliz
An independent literary press that publishes poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and translations from Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, and Galician.
dawid mobolaji
@dawidmobolaji
doctor 🩺 writer, translator 🖋️ / 2023 emerging translator mentee in Polish @WritersCentre / 2023 ALTA travel fellow @LitTranslate 🇵🇱🇳🇬
Sana R. Chaudhry
@sana_r_ch
Educator, researcher, writer, literary translator | Founder of Adabistan | Asst. Prof. @UofNorthFlorida
The Cercador Prize
@cercadorprize
A bookseller-helmed prize for literature in translation. (This account no longer being monitored.)
Megumi Noda
@meg_noda
Japanese⇔English literary translator.
Turkoslavia Collective & Journal
@turkoslaviaco
Founded by literary translators Sabrina Jaszi, Mirgul Kali, & Ena Selimović working from Turkic and Slavic languages. @sjaszi @enaselimo @IndyArtsSF
Green Linden Press
@greenlinden1
To publish and foster excellent poetry and to support reforestation. Stephen Mitchell Translation Prize, Wishing Jewel Prize, & poetry chapbooks.
Sophie Grace Lellman
@sophiegracelell
(she/her) assistant editor @NewVesselPress and @asymptotejrnl | 2024 @litTranslate emerging translator mentee
Poupeh Missaghi پوپه میثاقی
@poupehmissaghi
writer, translator, editor trans(re)lating house one, Coffee House Press, 2020 / Sound Museum, Coffee House Press 2024
shanna
@heyimshanna
Translator from Korean, Chinese and Japanese. @WritersCentre @LitTranslate Mentee. Translator of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum (Oct ‘23)
Circumference Books
@circbooks
A press for poetry in translation