ALTA BIPOC Translators Literary Caucus Reading

Stine An is a poet, translator, and performer based in New York City. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown, and has received fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, Yaddo, ALTA, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her publications include Today’s Morning Vocabulary (2025) and Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung, S_MMER CR_SH (2025), and by Lee Juck and illustrated by Lee Jinhee (2024). Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite (2026), won the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize and is now available in bookstores!

Kareem James Abu-Zeid, PhD, is a translator of poets and novelists from across the Arab world. He has received the Sarah Maguire Prize, PEN Center USA's translation prize, Poetry Magazine's translation prize, a Fulbright Fellowship, an NEA grant, and has thrice been a finalist for the PEN America Translation Prize.

Jon Cho-Polizzi is an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Michigan and an award-winning translator of contemporary German-language literature. He received his PhD from UC Berkeley, after studying translation, history, and literature in Heidelberg and Santa Cruz. His translation of Fatma Aydemir’s Djinns received the 2025 British Society of Authors’ Schlegel-Tieck Prize and was longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; his translation of Max Czollek’s De-Integrate received the 2024 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize. Jon’s translation of Ralph Tharayil’s Roll Back the Mountains is forthcoming with Seagull Books.

Chenxin Jiang is a literary translator based in Denver and Hong Kong. She spent September at Art Omi with the writer Wong Ching Hang and is also translating short stories by Chiu Chun Li and an essay in prose fragments by Zsuzanna Gahse. Chenxin completed her term as ALTA's President earlier this year. Her translation of Fish/Unfish: Selected Poems by Jiang Hao is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2027.

Elete Nelson-Fearon is a translator and editor working between Arabic, Spanish, and English. Elete is a 2026 Visible Communities resident at the National Centre for Writing and was awarded an ALTA Travel Fellowship in 2025 for her translation of Chilean Palestinian play Irreversible Palestine. Elete has translated plays, prose, and poetry from Mexico, Egypt, Palestine, and Spain.

Noelle de la Paz writes, translates, and makes things. Her work has appeared in Through the Night Like a Snake (Two Lines Press), the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Poetry and was previously an Emerge–Surface–Be Fellow at The Poetry Project.