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/
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
Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
Claire Placial @claireplacial.bsky.social Littérature comparée, traduction, poésie, chats, cuisine, université française. Féministe féliniste. Troll pédagogique de luxe. Membre honoraire du lobby. Je sers la science et c'est ma joie. « I identify as tired ».
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
Ben Barclay @benbarclay.bsky.social Translator and textbook writer. Post on climate, energy, health, Spain, Brexit and other stuff.
Produce VoiceMap audio tours of Andalucía: https://voicemap.me/publisher/ben-barclay#tours
https://andalucia-bound.com
@andalucia-bound.bsky.social
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
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.
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
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
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social knight-errant + anti-vampire
Lauren Elkin @laurenelkin.bsky.social Author, translator, vocal and pissed off SEND mum
Paris<>London
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
M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social Writer (SFWA), translator, humanist, general odd duck • 🇨🇦n in 🇨🇴 • avoids pronouns, they/them if key 🌈🌌
Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social 📚 Book Editor, Fr→En Lit Translator, Educator
🍽📖 Working on/devouring speculative fiction, horror, memoir, IF, comics
⭐ Teaching and coaching editors and writers
📘 Faculty @ Emerson's MFA in Popular Fiction
🌈📚 RSM team
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿🪫🇨🇭🎨
🚫gen AI
www.TanyaGold.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
Stephanie McCarter @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social Classics professor, writer, and translator (of Horace, Ovid, and Catullus, with more Ovid on the way). she/her stephaniemccarter.com
Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social Artist, printmaker, sculptor, translator of various subjects.
Foxes, owls, stones and bones
I have an online store for some of my limited edition linocuts
https://www.maria-strutz.co.uk/
Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social Washed-up translator
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
Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social public library worker. editor for the empyrean series + former practitioner of literary translation (FR>EN). ottawa, ontario. | jsief.com
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
Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
Lynn Nothegger @lynnnothegger.bsky.social Eingebürgerte Scottish lass in Germany. Writing. Translating. Riesling. Not all at the same time.
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.
Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social Critic, scholar, translator and poet in Paris. Recent reviews in the TLS and The Friday Poem. Most recent books from CUP & Palgrave. Poems in various places. Weekly substack on poetry & translation https://vamoul.substack.com/ https://www.victoriamoul.com
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
Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人 @webwight.bsky.social Once an erudite nine-year-old, always an erudite nine-year-old. Early China, translation, kids' books, politics (2026), whimsy. Gen Z wannabe
https://quoteofthedayforthesetimes.substack.com/ [Quotations relevant to current events. FREE]
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!
🌈🏳️⚧️
Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Europe. Associate Professor @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Books: "The Making of Mămăligă", "Networks, Narratives and Nations", “Un boem la Bucureşti” &c.
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/r/a.j.drace-francis/a.j.drace-francis.html
Esther Allen @eallen.bsky.social Translator, writer, CUNY prof, martiana. estherallen.com
Ginny Tapley Takemori @ginnytkmr.bsky.social Literary translator from Japanese
Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings, Life Ceremony, Vanishing World (Sayaka Murata), The Little House, Things Remembered And Things Forgotten (Kyoko Nakajima), Mornings Without Mii (Mayumi Inaba), and plenty more!
Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social Translator
Evan @mrapollo.bsky.social Monty the Springer Spaniel/Hilversum/Live subtitler/Dutch Talks & Dog Walks/Lego/Blues Brothers/Monty Python/Bonzo Dog Band/Kilts/Steampunk/Daleks/🖖🏻
Lekker stukje kaas van Pronk, mmm
Warwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social A book prize celebrating writing by women translated into English. Winner announced 27th November 2025. From SCAPVC at the University of Warwick. Posts by Holly Langstaff.
Nicola Bigwood | Proofreader & Copyeditor | Former Translator ✍️📚 @nicolabigwood.uk Proofreader & copyeditor of fiction & non-fiction, with background as a translator into English from French & German • CIEP Advanced Professional member • She/her • https://linktr.ee/nicolabigwood • Learning Italian and Gaelic… slowly!📍Scotland 🏴
Andrea Halbritter Leichte + Einfache Sprache FRDE @cotelangues.bsky.social #EinfacheSprache #LeichteSprache für Gedenkstätten, Politik, Museen, Gesundheit
#Translator FR/EN > DE (wine, tourism, NS)
3. Gen. NS-Widerstand
Arbeitet an Buch zu Augsburg in NS-Zeit
www.cotelangues.com
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
wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social Alexander Booth. Poetry. Translation (Mayröcker, Kluge, Penna, Wittgenstein et al). Analog collage.
Existential Analysis / Logotherapy.
Epigrams unto emptiness.
Tread the path with care.
wordkunst@gmail.com / IG: @wordkunst
Luerikerin (Mads Pedersen Ultra) @weltverbesserle.eurosky.social Translator & roommate of 2 cats. Mastering the art of tsundoku.
She/her
Revolutionszeichen Runkelrübe
Avery Udagawa @averyudagawa.bsky.social Kansan in Thailand, translator of Japanese children's literature, believer in #worldkidlit www.averyfischerudagawa.com
Lindsey Ford @lindseyford.bsky.social Spanish translator. Book in one hand, drink in the other. She/her.
http://www.lindseyfordtranslation.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. 🦔
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.
Taylor Drew @mollymay5000.bsky.social she/they | Canada → 日本 | Japanese to English translator | English, Français, 日本語
https://taylordrew.me/
Jo Heinrich @joheinrich.bsky.social DE & FR > EN translator, Marzahn Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp and more to come! joheinrichtranslation.co.uk
Ruth Martin @dances-with-voles.bsky.social German to English translator and general book botherer (she/her)
Ian Winick, Translator & Copywriter @ianwinick.bsky.social Translator (German/French to English), word-tamer, songwriter, atheist, podcaster and popular man about town.
www.ianwinick.com
Co-host of:
Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast
https://linktr.ee/eatthepudding
Archie Valparaiso @archiev.bsky.social Gracelessly aging* writer, copy editor and translator. Curator of #SaveOurSubs. Based on the Continong.
____
* No "e" after the "g", eh. Glad we've got that cleared up.
Martina Dervis @martinader.bsky.social Ex-Londoner in Berlin. Translates and edits (art & culture, history, botany). Eats, cooks and spends most of her free time looking for a flat with a decent-sized kitchen and room for some books. Loves cats and museums. #dementia care
@worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social 🌟non-profit helping readers of all age discover diverse, translated and global children's books and YA
🌟anti-racism through reading
🌟year round, and especially September #WorldKidLitMonth
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
Dr M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig @whatisaletter.bsky.social poet, human, dog lover
academic & literary editing/translation, and writing (ENG/GER)
MSt & DPhil (University of Oxford)
Instagram: schicketanz_books
http://patreon.com/whatisaletter
@lillielangtry.bsky.social @lillielangtry.bsky.social Books, languages, translation, Latin America. Migrationshintergrund. 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇦🇷 
Peter Barrett @peterbarrett.bsky.social Literature in Translation, Poetry, Photography, Kayaking, Forest Meandering, Adventures with Charlie.
Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada
Anne Marie Jackson @annemariejackson.bsky.social #Translator *** #TranslationEditor *** #Editor
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
Ayça Türkoğlu @aycatur.bsky.social Literary translator from German & Turkish, little woodland creature and professional dweeb.
Kate Sotejeff-Wilson @katesw.bsky.social Midwife of texts for academics and the arts | KSWTranslations.com from Finnish, German and Polish, editing in English | runs ridgewritingretreats.com | devourer of books | she/ona/sie/hän
Wendy Baldwin - Linguaverse @linguaverse.bsky.social I help academics write (writing retreat facilitator & AcWri trainer) & publish their work (authors' editor, academic translator). Co-founder of WRAP @wrap-net.bsky.social. 🎓 (Psycho-)linguistics 🏠 Donostia-San Sebastián
🌴 https://www.linguaverse.net/links
Olivier Roth @olivierroth.bsky.social Translator (EN>FR), Interpreter, Screenwriter - Not averse to banter, nonsense, and bilingual puns.
AnnaBarna @annabarna.bsky.social Auch @annabarna13@mastodon.social Was mit Sprachen 🇩🇪🇪🇸🇬🇧 🇨🇵 & CT Loves and tweets languages, opera, travel & Fußball ... #xl8 #btsv #Barcelona 🏳️🌈
Bren Kübler @brenkubler.bsky.social Lined up words for 40+ years (editor, translator, writer). Swiss/UK citizen originally from Yorkshire. Retired, living in rural SE France since 2007.
Language(s), books, cats, food, gardening, France, bees in my bonnet. Food bank volunteer
Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social Writer, PT-EN literary translator | 2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award | Translations in Words Without Borders, Michigan Quarterly Review, LALT, Asymptote Journal | Author-Member at Betty Books | ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com
Joel Martinsen @jdmartinsen.bsky.social Joel is a Beijing-based translator. zhwj on Douban and Tumblr · @jdmartinsen@mastodon.social · he/him · joelmartinsen.com
Cassia A 💙📚🖋️ @cassiaa.bsky.social I write. I might write what I think, or transfer to my language what other people wrote in theirs. Nomad. Love books, photography and movies, not necessarily in this order. 
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.
Charlotte Collins @cctranslates.bsky.social Literary translator (DE-EN). Cambridge, UK
Seethaler, Haratischwili, Menasse, Schlink & more.
Morgan Giles @wrongsreversed.bsky.social magic eyes to read between the lines
Paul Kaye @paulkaye.bsky.social Translator with the EU (into 🇬🇧 from 🇸🇰🇨🇿🇵🇱🇭🇺🇪🇪🇫🇷🇺🇦, learning 🇬🇷). Runner, climber, cyclist, cross-country skier. Ex-hack. Lancastrian, Notlobber in Brussels. FRGS, BWFC.
Texttreff @texttreff.bsky.social Das Netzwerk wortstarker Frauen. Hier posten stellvertretend 3 Textinen aus dem www.texttreff.de
Im TT-Bluesky-Team: @smartezeitungah.bsky.social, @textzicke.bsky.social und @rba-schreibt.bsky.social
Alexandra Kranefeld @greenishglass.bsky.social liest, lebt & übersetzt
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 💛
Matthias Friedrich @nordicnovellas.bsky.social Literaturübersetzer Norwegisch/Dänisch/Schwedisch/Katalanisch-Deutsch. U. a. Leif Høghaug, Ida Marie Hede, Adrià Pujol Cruells, Prudenci Bertrana.
https://literaturuebersetzungen-friedrich.de/
Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social British Library German collections curator. Tiny translation sideline. Reader, bellringer, Wagner & Archers fan. Comprehensive educated & proud. Views my own.
AVÜ @avue.bsky.social Gestatten, AVÜ!
Verband für audiovisuelle Übersetzer*innen;
German association of audiovisual translators
https://avue-ev.de
Roland Glasser 🟣 @rolandglasser.bsky.social Literary translator from French. Founding member of @StarlingBureau. Occasional lighting designer. Flâneur.
Jon Cho-Polizzi @jpolizei.bsky.social translator. literature professor.
californian in exile ☀️🌲🌊⛰️🌆
traveler, lebenskünstler, punk.
he/him.
TraLaLit @tralalit.de Magazin für übersetzte Literatur: https://tralalit.de/
Unterstütze uns auf Steady! https://steadyhq.com/de/tralalit/
Mehr Infos: https://linktr.ee/tralalit
Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉 @bethangharad.bsky.social Literary translator 🇧🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 to EN. Words in The Stinging Fly, Wasafiri, MPT, Circumference, Asymptote, & more. PEN America Grant Winner 2025 & English PEN Presents 2026 ✨
Languages are my jam🫙🍓, opinions my own. Send dog pics. 🐕
www.bethhicklingmoore.com
Imke Brodersen @germanbooktrans.bsky.social Literaturübersetzerin aus Liebe zum Buch.
EN / SP > DE
Reader, translator. She/her.
Loves fantasy & science and dragons, and, yes, that's a perfect combination for an open mind.
John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social Writer, translator, Berlin, books. Very loud music, very quiet music. The way the ocean glows at midnight. Butterflies. Birds. TTPRGs. Trans rights, migrant rights, human rights. He/him.
Janet MacKenzie @janmakarta.eurosky.social Librarian, translator,❤️ languages (currently Welsh, also DE, DA, FR; BA in FR from Birmingham Univ.) and classical vocal music (esp. choral and Lieder). Liverpudlian, has lived in Munich for over 45 yrs. #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🏴🇩🇪🇩🇰🇫🇷🏴
Emma Gledhill @linguistforsail.bsky.social A translator that sails. FCIL, FITI, @CIOL_Linguists Council & membership cttee. RHBNC & Uni of Surrey alumna. Into Romansch, sax 'n' violins, amateur genealogy, books. Susceptible to rabbit holes. Posts are own views. Usually found up a Swiss alp.
Kim Bakkers @kimmb.bsky.social Freelance Translator | German & Spanish into English | Marketing + Science & Tech translations | Interested in astronomy, astrobiology, genealogy, art + photography
http://www.kbtranslations.co.uk
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
Marianna Suleymanova @marsnova.bsky.social www.mstranslates.com
Literary translator from Russian
Third Culture Kid
Gender Coin-flip
📍 Philadelphia
🏠 Houston
🌱 Tashkent
Becky Mynett @psalteryandharp.uk Church Musician, Choir Director and Harpist. Composer of Responsorial Psalms (among other things), Reader (LLM) and Member of CofE General Synod.
Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social French/German to English translator:
Board games, literature, international development.
Written reviews, playtesting, rules editing.
(She/her)
Sara Horcas-Rufián @sarahorcas.bsky.social (Sworn) Translator. Profesora asociada (Adjunct Professor) URV & UAH.
PhD student; diss. on translation teacher's competence.
ella/she | sarahorcas@gmail.com
Kymm Coveney @kymminbarcelona.bsky.social Boston transplant, fiction practitioner, xl8r.
www.betterlies.blogspot.com
Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social Ootlin. Scotland→Mexico City→Berlin.
Translator. Senior editor @charcopress
elusiveword.com
Charlène Busalli @charlenebusalli.bsky.social EN>FR Literary Translator, Book Section Manager at The Celtic House, Chair of Islay Book Festival, Bookseller Rising Star ‘24 ⭐
Julia Sherwood @juliasherwood.bsky.social translator
Renata Fernandes 🌈 | 🎦 📚 Translator @renatafernandes.bsky.social 🩷💜 💙🦋
She | AV & editorial translator bringing your LGBTQIA+ stories to Brazil | English >< 🇧🇷 Portuguese | Tradutora audiovisual e editorial | Revisora | Levo suas histórias LGBTQIA+ até falantes de inglês
➡️ renatafernandestranslation.com/