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@aozoraspv.bsky.social @aozoraspv.bsky.social Real name: Simon Varnam
J>E translator
Teacher of English to K-12 Japanese in Fuji-shi.
Horn player (Alex 1103)
Biker (Honda Transalp, Yamaha RAID)
Naturalist: crappy trail cam footage on FB and YouTube as “Wild Yabanjin.” 野番人
Geek Girls / Media Chomp @geekgirls.bsky.social We're Geek Girls who are fabulous, funny, smart & in costume!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Pau Pitarch @paupitarch.bsky.social I teach Modern Japanese Literature and Media at Waseda University.
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Anne McKnight @annekmck.bsky.social bibliophile, minimalist, literary historian of subcultures. "Professor McKnight is very caring and knowledgeable. However she picked more eccentric pieces of literature and film to discuss." 2026~Long Take: Kurosawa Akira as World Cinéphile (Minnesota)
AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order.
https://www.cokldb.org/
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/
波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social Mostly posting in 変体英文. || Kulturelles Rāmenprogramm. || Inter indoctos, qui semidoctus est, doctissimus habetur.
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social Author, editor, historian. Bibliophile.
Luke Haigh Photography @lukehaigh.bsky.social UK bird photographer capturing native species in the wild. Canon R5ii | Daily posts | All photos original |
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Laird Barron @lairdbarron.bsky.social A dog of the house
Mainly updates; occasional commentary
Catch me at my Patreon: Realms of Old Leech https://www.patreon.com/lairdbarron/about
Banner art: Chuck Killorin.
Jim Rion・ライオン ジミー @jimrion.com Peace, please, peace for all.
Translator (Strange Pictures, Strange Houses, etc.). Japanese horror devourer. Bird picture taker
Co-host of Sake Deep Dive podcast.
英訳者：「悪魔がきたれて、笛をふく」「変な家」「変な絵」等等
執筆者：「Discovering Yamaguchi Sake」
20年以上日本在中
山口県万歳🙌
toweather @toweather.bsky.social You may change the America I live in, but you'll never change the America that lives in me.
Claire Debenham @clairedeb.bsky.social Japanese-to-English medical translator, dog-lover, servant of cat. Human companion to @fenlandlapphund.bsky.social
David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Chinese, gamer, reader of books. Translator of Zhang Tianyi's The Pidgin Warrior and Mao Dun's Waverings among other things. Ex-98G.
He/him
Jesper Anderson @sjuswede.bsky.social Scifi writer. Computer scientist. Jet simulation sysadmin. World traveler. SCUBA diver. Metalhead. WoW raider. ADHD'er.- R Roger Lipsett @rogerl.bsky.social
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Rachel Ward @racheltranslates.bsky.social FITI, Literary & creative translator, German & French to English: children's/YA and crime fiction, history; proofreader, bookworm; food, crafts, history; cats; climbing; cycling; she/her; Twitter: @FwdTranslations Mastodon: @FwdTranslations@zirk.us
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Editor & translator, The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024). Clarion West '21. ace 🏳️🌈. linktr.ee/yilinw
Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org Scrutable Occidental, erstwhile 北漂, quondam translator, Ming/Qing fiction enjoyer, congenital Philadelphian, escaped academic, MLIS aspirant, 鏟屎官 (二等). Cynicism makes you an easy mark. Signal: @bokane.1644.
http://www.burninghou.se
Anton Hur @antonhur.com Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
🔗: antonhur.com
Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social アレン・ジョセリン
I write. I ramble. I translate. And interpret.
筆者／翻訳・通訳家／取り留めの無い人
(she/they)
brainvsbook.com
kaikatsu.ca
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social knight-errant + anti-vampire
Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Reader.
Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
Gili Bar-Hillel @gilibug.bsky.social Publisher (Utz Publishing) and translator, mostly of children’s fantasy. Tiptoeing around explicit words and vague feelings. Often wears socks with Moomins on them. Heartbroken.
הוצאת ספרים עוץ: utz.co.il
Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social Neuroscientist turned science fiction & fantasy #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF, Radon. BSFA & BFS member. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG
Current: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto
21 July 26: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kōhei Saitō
Soon: LOVEAHOLIC by Fumio Yamamoto
Tarte 🥧 and Butt 🌈 Enthusiast (à Montréal)
IG: instagram.com/asa_no_burei
Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social Wrote FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translate German lit, publish Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. www.jencalleja.com
Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social writer, translator, cat
Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social Literary translator from German to English, occasional publisher, Berlin lover, appreciator of wallets on chains. She/her.
Photo © Nane Diehl
alex v @alexvalente.fyi word-wrangler at https://alexvalente.fyi/; play pretender at https://playpretend.bearblog.dev/
TTRPGs ~ books ~ comics ~ translation ~ big robots
he/him
Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social Washed-up translator
ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social translator Монгол/Hungarian to English, occasional poet, adoptee
Funeral, and Other Stories, by Edina Szvoren, Seagull Books, 2026
Zsömle Is Gone, by László Krasznahorkai, New Directions 2027
she/her/ő
ᠡᠭᠡ ᠭᠡᠯᠡ ᠪᠡᠨ ᠠᠪᠤᠷᠠᠴᠠᠭᠠᠶ ᠠ!
🌈🏳️⚧️
Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks.com, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at @utulsa.bsky.social; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
Tristan Felix B. @tristiger.bsky.social Emily Balistrieri, Japanese translator: Shihodo Stationery, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice, Tatami Galaxy, Until I Love Myself, Soul Lanterns, Kiki. he/him 日本語では: @tristora.bsky.social Never genAI.
Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social Spanish translator. Book in one hand, drink in the other. She/her.
http://www.lindseyfordtranslation.com/
Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social Translator
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social Literary translator, reformed academic, tangata tiriti, she/her.
Jo Heinrich @joheinrich.bsky.social DE & FR > EN translator, Marzahn Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp and more to come! joheinrichtranslation.co.uk
Janeishly (she/her) @janeishly.bsky.social Literary & commercial translator (Swedish, Norwegian & French to UK English). Proofreader/editor. Writer. Manx European in rural southern Sweden. Gamer. Lefty. Autistic. More than slightly obsessed with IDLES.
Buy my book here: https://amzn.to/3ykZYJh
Louise Rogers Lalaurie @louiserl.bsky.social Writer (Matisse, art, travel, interiors...), translator (French fiction, art, travel, comité Colbert), landlady (Seine-side retreat in France). British, Welsh, European, Irish, French (in that order) https://louiserogers.blog
Anna Gunin @annagunin.bsky.social Translator from Russian of Svetlana Alexievich, Pavel Bazhov, Oleg Pavlov and others
🍉 🗝️ 🌻
Zoë Perry @zoeperry.bsky.social Translator of books from 🇧🇷
Recent translations: SECRET DINNER by Raphael Montes, EXEMPLARY HUMANS by Juliana Leite, DIORAMA by Carol Bensimon. #amtranslating: Julia Codo, Natalia Timerman, Veronica Stigger
Kentuckian but also Canadian
zaptranslations.com
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social Kansan in Thailand, translator of Japanese children's literature, believer in #worldkidlit www.averyfischerudagawa.com
Allison M. Charette @sunshineabroad.bsky.social Bringing the literature of Madagascar into English, one translation at a time. Raising good humans. Teatime is the best time. She/elle
Quentin Bates @graskeggur.bsky.social Writer of books and other stuff, translator of other people's books. Á það til að þusa á Íslensku. If you send me a DM, I won't see it. So please don't.
graskeggur.com
isabeltranslates @isabeltranslates.bsky.social Translator of Czech, Slovak, German & French into English. Literary translator of genre & other fiction, & occasional non-fiction. European, wordsmith, word nerd, foodie, reader, yogi & chocoholic. Childless not by choice. New Glaswegian. She/her. 🦔
Ayça Türkoğlu @aycatur.bsky.social Literary translator from German & Turkish, little woodland creature and professional dweeb.
Dr Rachel Rankin @rakelrank.bsky.social Scottish poet | NOR-ENG Translator | Work in The Poetry Review / Modern Poetry in Translation / Magma / Gutter / The Scotsman | Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2019 | Grierson Verse Prize 2023 / Wigtown Poetry Prize Runner-Up 2023
M Lynx Qualey @mlynxqualey.bsky.social e.g. Author, translator, critic, founding editor of ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly.
Ruth Martin @dances-with-voles.bsky.social German to English translator and general book botherer (she/her)
Anne Marie Jackson @annemariejackson.bsky.social #Translator *** #TranslationEditor *** #Editor
Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social Professor of translation, University of Geneva. Recent books: Professional Translators in 19th-c France, Translating Science in the 18th & 19th c, Translating Books for Publication. Occasional literary translator.
Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social Literary translator (DE-EN). Cambridge, UK
Seethaler, Haratischwili, Menasse, Schlink & more.
Shelley Frisch @shelfrisch.bsky.social Translator from German, translation activist. Latest translation: NAPLES 1825, by Martin Mittelmeier (Yale UP). Current project: biography of Hannah Arendt, by Thomas Meyer (Penguin). Lives in Princeton, NJ.
Roland Glasser 🟣 @rolandglasser.bsky.social Literary translator from French. Founding member of @StarlingBureau. Occasional lighting designer. Flâneur.
Shaun Whiteside @shaunwhiteside.bsky.social Family translation (DE, FR, IT, NL) cooking travel cats books films and stuff. From Dungannon.
Kat Hall 📚 @kathall.bsky.social Editor & translator (GER ➡️ EN) Tr. of von Schirach's PUNISHMENT + COFFEE & CIGS. At peabodyink.com (my work) & mrspeabodyinvestigates.com (crime blog). Europhile 💛
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social Translator of excellent Norwegian books.
Kim Sanderson @sandersonkim.bsky.social Sanderson Translations FR/DE-EN. Architecture, planning, advertising etc. Teach xl8on + related topics. Hexham, UK. Also on LinkedIn and https://www.sandersontranslations.com
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social magic eyes to read between the lines
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social Writer, translator, teacher, aspiring alpinist. She/her
Isabel Adey @imadey.bsky.social Translator, editor, proofreader: Spanish & German to English
Leith, Edinburgh
Kymm Coveney @kymminbarcelona.bsky.social Boston transplant, fiction practitioner, xl8r.
www.betterlies.blogspot.com
Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social poet, artist, gardener, translator
he/him
impaired energy (ME)
ACE-Funded
Julia Sherwood @juliasherwood.bsky.social translator
David Colmer @davidcolmer.bsky.social Translator
Ruth Clarke @ruthclarke.bsky.social Translator, editor, book person
Clarissa Botsford @clarissabotsford.bsky.social Literary translator IT-EN, musician and Humanist celebrant
Yana Ellis @yanaellis.bsky.social Literary translator from Bulgarian & German to English, garden nerd, long distance cyclists, always looks on the bright side of life. She/her.
Sue Proof 📚💙 @sueproof.bsky.social Welsh to English literary translator
Dina Leifer @dina-words.bsky.social Translator FR-EN & IT-EN, writer, reader. My picture book And Eddie Had an Egg will be out with Green Bean Books in early 2026 https://greenbeanbooks.com/and-eddie-had-an-egg/
Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social Translating Czech -> English: linktr.ee/AlexZucker
Organizing: New York Dignity Not Detention | Immigration Justice Working Group, SURJ NYC | Literary Translators Division, NWU | #StopArmingIsrael #FreePalestine
Melvyn Clarke @zehrovak.bsky.social The Czech-English translator – not the Carshalton ironmonger's. Latest translations include books on Cz Legions in Siberia and Cz astronomers worldwide. Getting down to the nuts and bolts of translation theory. Thingy/doodah.
Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social www.mstranslates.com
Literary translator from Russian
Third Culture Kid
Gender Coin-flip
📍 Philadelphia
🏠 Houston
🌱 Tashkent
Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social public library worker. editor for the empyrean series + former practitioner of literary translation (FR>EN). ottawa, ontario. | jsief.com
Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net He/him. Writer. איבערטייטשער. Fifth generation New Yorker. Mad man and Psychiatric Survivor. Hairy AND over-share-y. MFA from Randolph College. http://www.MordecaiMartin.net. https://fartaytshtundfarbesert.substack.com/
Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com
Delta Green @deltagreen.bsky.social Deception is a right. Truth is a privilege. Innocence is a luxury. Born of the U.S. government’s 1928 raid on the degenerate coastal town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, the covert agency known as Delta Green opposes the forces of darkness.
Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog Pulp scholar specializing in H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Author of SEX AND THE CTHULHU MYTHOS and WEIRD TALERS. Reader of dead people's letters. He/him. Blue checks happen to other people.
https://deepcuts.blog
Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com a podcast about Japanese fiction + some of its best works | posting updates on new Japanese fiction | apologies for the typos | blocking new follows that look like bots | DON’T buy or read AI translations | all stories are political
Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social English professor in Fukuoka, Japan; research focus on utopias in literature with forays into science fiction, ecocriticism, & monster theory. Immigrant, LGBTQIA+(bi).
https://dystopianflower.leaflet.pub/
https://linkat.blue/azzageddi.myatproto.social
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social Author of horror and weird fiction. Martial Artist. Whisky drinker. Dog lover.
He/him.
Trans rights are human rights.
Fuck AI.
https://alanbaxter.com.au/contact/