translation

Moved by my curiosity for the world, its people, peoples and cultures, I have traveled to, lived and worked in many astounding places.

I have collaborated on special political & cultural events, publications, and/or translation prize committees including with French Voices, PEN, Villa Gillet, and, within the French government, its Book Office and Cultural Services, as well as for France Fiction for the Frankfurt Book Fair. I have translated and interpreted for journalists, hospitals, schools and law firms, for pro bono human rights cases, for the UN and its related offices, including the UN General Assembly & Security Council, UNESCO and the Spanish Mission to the UN.

Translations include work by Javier Acosta Escareño, René Backmann, André Breton, Marie Darrieussecq, Cynthia Fleury, Anna Gual, Cebrià Montoliu, Marie Ndiaye and Tzvetan Todorov.

— RECENT WORK —

— 2023 —

August

My translations of three of Anna Gual’s poems from Unnamable in Circumference, Summer 2023
https://circumferencemag.com

Ara article by journalist Carla Fajardo Martín on Catalan literature on the international scene, in which Anna Gual and I are linked.
https://llegim.ara.cat/reportatges/impressionar-qualitat-aixi-veu-mon-literatura-catalana_130_4784742.html

June

POETRY magazine
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine

Trinity College, Dublin, under the auspices of Carlow University’s MFA low-residency program: Anna Gual & I presented our work.
https://www.tcd.ie
https://www.carlow.edu/academic-programs/english-communication-degrees/mfa-creative-writing/
https://annagual.cat

Interview with Anna Gual in Ara by journalist Carla Fajardo Martín on our Dublin presentation and the fact that Anna is the third Catalan poet whose work was published in POETRY’s over 100-year history.
https://llegim.ara.cat/actualitat/anna-gual-tercera-poeta-catalana-publicada-100-anys-poetry-magazine_1_4741010.html

April
Write on, Door County (WI)
Translation residency

The Sant Jordi USA Festival 2023
Translations and readings of works by Anna Gual, by Anna Gual and myself, as well as a short video on my work on the life & work of Cebrià Montoliu
April 26: 4pm (CMontoliu)
April 27: 2h30pm (AGual)
https://www.santjordiusa.org/program

— 2022—

December

Hyperion, a special edition with a focus on Catalan Literature
Translations of a portfolio of poems from Unnamable, by Catalan poet, Anna Gual, as well as excerpts I translated from Cebrià Montoliu’s study of the life and work of Walt Whitman featured in Hyperion, special on Catalan literature
https://www.contramundumpress.com/post/hyperion-catalan-special-feature

Fall
Translation Magic, essay featured in Carlow Univeristy’s MFA Review, The Triskelion

July
Harvard Review, Omniglots Series featuring a selection of Anna Gual’s poems and my translations of them:
https://harvardreview.org/content/unnamable-poems-by-anna-gual

April
American Literary Translation Association: ALTA45 Bilngual Reading Series: Multigenre Potpourri: AKaiser with Anna Gual, and Others

January
NEA: National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Fellow 2022 for my translation of the work of Catalan poet, Anna Gual: Unnameable
https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts
https://annagual.cat

Alas Verdes Translation: Work-in-Progress Translation Reading
@AlasTranslation

ATLAS ViceVersa Fellow for Translation Workshop / Arles, France
https://www.atlas-citl.org/atelier-viceversa-anglaisfrancais-2020/

Aguascalientes Literary Festival 2019 / Aguascalientes, Mexico
–Panel, alongside poet Javier Acosta Escareño: Whitman in Catalan & Spanish Translations
–Workshop: Whitman, Roma, Translation & Friendship

Collaborating with Irakli Kakabadze, poet, performance artist, human rights activist: a collection of poems & prose by contemporary Georgian authors

Walt Whitman Conference & Symposium / Dortmund, Germany
–Presentation: Cebrià Montoliu: Catalan urbanista, Whitman translator (& US utopian)
–Workshop: Whitman in Translation…into Arabic, Catalan, German, Italian, Spanish

— FELLOWSHIPS & PRIZES —

NEA: National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Fellow 2022 for my translation of the work of Catalan poet, Anna Gual: Unnameable
https://www.arts.gov/impact/literary-arts
https://annagual.cat

ATLAS Vice Versa Translation Workshop, 2020 Fellow. Arles, France
https://www.atlas-citl.org/atelier-viceversa-anglaisfrancais-2020/

French Voices: Grant Recipient

Finalist: UN St Jerome translation contest (Spanish)

Finalist: Florence Gould/French-American Foundation Translation Award
A Wall in Palestine, by René Backmann (Fayard (2006) / Gallimard Folio (2008) / Picador, (2010)) https://us.macmillan.com/tradebooksforcourses/academictrade/9780312427818/awallinpalestine
Reviewed here: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-apr-25-la-ca-backmann-ballaigue-20100425-story.html

— CATALAN —

Anna Gual, poet: Unnameable: a collected works

Alas Verdes Translation: Work-in-Progress Translation Reading
@AlasTranslation
January 20

Cebrià Montoliu (Palma, 1873 – Albuquerque, 1923): biography and translation of this Catalan urbanista, city-garden advocate, utopian and translator’s critical work of Ruskin, Emerson, and Whitman, including his book length analysis of Walt Whitman’s work (1913) – the first of its erudition in the Iberian world, perhaps, too, in all romance languages – a work never before translated into English

— FRENCH —

André Breton: Nadja (1928): new translation and original essay, integrating as well works on the character and person of “Nadja” over last almost century

— GEORGIAN —

Collaborating with Irakli Kakabadze, poet, performance artist, human rights activist: a collection of poems & prose by contemporary Georgian authors

— SPANISH —

Work of Javier Acosta Esacareño, Mexican poet

Work of Bertha María Inzunza Choza, Mexican poet