sabinahblack.bsky.social @sabinahblack.bsky.social 🇬🇧🇲🇺🇩🇪🇫🇷 British copyeditor, proofreader, and translator (German, French, Mauritian Creole) specialising in multilingual and multicultural publications, inclusive books, and works linked to the UK, France, Germany, and Mauritius. 🇬🇧🇲🇺🇩🇪🇫🇷
🔗 www.sabinahblack.com
Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | Small Planet Magazine | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar.
Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social An online revue dedicated to the promotion and discussion of literary translation. https://hopscotchtranslation.com/
Maria Jacqueline @afriendlyhorse.bsky.social Artist, translator, bookstore aficionado,
F. @edgwareviabank.bsky.social Italian-born, raised all over the place, wound up in London for better or worse. Also: 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 translator & writer, hobby photographer, cat person, here for books & food. She / her.
Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social Translator. Raitán. Swappin' yarns tae cowe the gowan.
Rebecca DeWald @rebeccadewald.bsky.social she/her
Translator GER-EN-FR, programmer @writerscentre.bsky.social , Borges disciple and ex-academic by day — sewist, knitter, gardener by night
https://rebeccadewaldtranslation.wordpress.com/
Also kalewatercottage.co.uk
English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/englishpen
Ser Kai @trans-lator.bsky.social French-to-English trans-lator 🏳️⚧️. Canadian. Dog dad. Book nerd.
In Other Words @inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social Translation-focused research group and roaming library, focused on activities around the creative and intellectual practices of translation 📚
https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk
Sue Burke @sueburke.bsky.social Writer. https://sueburke.site/
Steven Capsuto (translation and languages account) @linguacaps.bsky.social I post about language geekery and translation. I've been a full-time translator since 2003, providing human translations from Spanish, French, Catalan, Portuguese, and Ladino into English. Web: linguacaps.com. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@linguacap.
Jenna Tang @jennathesoup.bsky.social Taiwanese Literary translator from Mandarin & Spanish/ Travel Writer/ Translator of Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise (HarperVia)/ Educator/ 2025 TEDx Middlebury Speaker
hairy.t 🇲🇬 @tahirisoa.bsky.social Malagasy 🇲🇬
Madagasikara ho an'ny Malagasy
Sambatra fa Malagasy
The Third Wheel @thethirdwheel-mag.bsky.social The Third Wheel is a lit mag conceived as a hub for literary translators.
https://thethirdwheel.org/
American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) promotes literary translation through advocacy, education and services to literary translators.
https://literarytranslators.org/- N Vivek Narayanan @naravive.bsky.social Poetry: The Kuruntokai and its Mirror (Hanuman Editions, 2024); After (New York Review Books / HarperCollins India, 2022); Life and Times of Mr. S (2012); Universal Beach (2006). I teach Creative Writing in the MFA Program at George Mason University.
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún @kolatubosun.bsky.social Writer and linguist. Co-editor "Best Literary Translations." Watch "Ebrohimie Road" at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/ebrohimieroad
Tina Kover @tinakover.bsky.social Award-winning literary translator. US/UK citizen. Coloradan. Democrat. Wearer of red lipstick. Co-founder, @translatorsaloud.bsky.social.
Éric Cléach @ericcleach.bsky.social 🌐 English->French Localization & IT/Tech Marketing Translation Specialist 💻
🎸 Indie, shoegaze, dream pop and twee pop 😎
🍜 Food and cycling 🚲
Christine Buckley @christinebuckley.bsky.social Freelance writer, editor, translator, mom. Pyrénées Orientales. Past lives: New York, Paris, Sài Gòn. Ex-
@theafricareport @en.france24.com @ajenglish
@en.rfi.fr @NPR (WGCU) @vietnamnewsnet. Français, tiếng việt, español
Rhiannon Lawrence @rhiannonlawrence.bsky.social Expanding horizons through translation. French to English.
Jay King @jay-king-art.bsky.social Athens-based writer, performer & translator from the Republic of Croydon.
Crime novels, audiobooks and drama, bouzouki, neurodivergence, migraines, G.O. 💚🍉
Now also Greek.
I wrote Common Charges, the Exarcheia murder mystery
Www.jayking.art
Luca Paci @lucapaci.bsky.social Poet, lecturer and translator.
https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/tempo-excursions-in-21st-century-italian-poetry
Esteban Tremoco @estebantrmc.bsky.social Translator (EN / ES - FR), PhD student (literary SF translation) & musician (🎷). Learning 🇵🇹 at my own pace: (very) slowly
@nicolamira.bsky.social @nicolamira.bsky.social Translator, writer, reader.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." J.L. Borges
Peter Barrett @peterbarrett.bsky.social Literature in Translation, Poetry, Photography, Kayaking, Forest Meandering, Adventures with Charlie.
Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada
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/
Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social Je est un∙e autre, but also a translator from Italian
She/her
Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social ✍️Literary & creative translator (French, Spanish, Catalan > English)
🌏Procrastinator, dreamer, traveller, animal lover, anywhere person.
cmctranslations.com
linktr.ee/anywhereperson
Liz West @westbynorth.bsky.social Copy editor, proofreader, FR-EN translator, and writer of print and digital content. Interested in accessible, user-centred writing.
Sewist and lapsed knitter
Alice Banks @alice-banks.bsky.social Midlander/Madrileña
Literary Translator from French and Spanish into English
http://alicebankstranslator.com
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
Elizabeth Harris @eidaharris.bsky.social Literary translator (Italian fiction): Giulio Mozzi, Antonio Tabucchi, Andrea Bajani, Claudia Durastanti, others. Translated books: Archipelago, FSG, Riverhead, Fitzcarraldo, others. NEA, Italian Prose in Translation Award, National Translation Award
Sanches with two esses @sanschaises.bsky.social 
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
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
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
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🌈🏳️⚧️
Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social Writer, translator, teacher, aspiring alpinist. She/her
Anne Milano Appel @annemilanoappel.bsky.social Literary translator, from Italian to English. Member of ALTA, ATA, NCTA, PEN, Authors Guild. San Francisco Bay Area. https://amilanoappel.com/
Lizzie B Brown @lizziebbrown.bsky.social Author of spicy, smutty romance stories.
Lizziebbrown.com
Human words. Human voices. Human art.
🩷💜💙
Rachel Simpson Writes @rachelsimpsonwrit.bsky.social Bi/pan+ queer indie author
Dragons, queer characters, mysticism, adventure and healing
https://linktr.ee/rachelsimpsonwrites
Fox @crossedmoss.bsky.social A Remedy Earned - OUT NOW
On Fluent Haunches - OUT NOW!
As We Rot - Ongoing serial Patreon.com/fox_emm
Book-lover. Writer. Nonbinary.
Start again, never over. This is my design. 💀
https://foxemm.com
D.C. Emerson🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @authordcemerson.bsky.social Queer Romance Author, centering queer and genderqueer voices. Dcemerson.com
📕 They Were Roommates
📗 An Epic Construct
📘 A Basic Binary available March 25!
Sara And The Silver Screen @sarasilverscreen.bsky.social Hi, I’m Sara, and I spend way too much time going to the movies and then trying to talk to people about movies they’ve never seen.
https://saraandthesilverscreen.substack.com
bebe @bebewrites.bsky.social she/her. eternally first drafting. cat person. iced coffee, always. forever sleepy.
✍️: fantasy novel in progress ❤️🔥👑⚔️
📚: i should be reading something
Naomi Ansano @pensandposes.bsky.social 
faedenbooks.bsky.social @faedenbooks.bsky.social Mortal Memories out now 🥀
Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com Author of SFFH · French & American · THE COLOR OF TIME out now at @shirakipress.com · Rep: @ajvanbelle.bsky.social · 📍 California
🌐 millieabecassis.com/link-in-bio
🌊 @smallpitch.org Founder
🏆 @specawards.bsky.social Co-Founder
E.J. Stoll @ejstoll.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Author of MM romance | 🩷💜💙 | 🐈⬛ Black cat enthusiast | ❤️ Heartfelt Risks; Lasting Love ❤️ | Defender of LGBTQIA+ rights
Avery Bridge @avery-bridge.bsky.social Author of cozy + steamy🌈💜queer stories. www.averybridgeauthor.com
NO 🚫AI
Andi Moonbeam @greenwitch631.bsky.social Aspiring Author of Contemporary Fantasy, autosexual/omniromantic, fae/she pronouns, autistic and queer
Fallon (Anne) Willoughby @authorwilloughby.bsky.social 🩷💜💙
linktr.ee/FallonWilloughby
Writer of Magical Stories
College Professor & Mom - Nerd
#coffeeaddict #writer
#beyourself #bekind
M.L. Eaden @mleaden.bsky.social M.L. Eaden works by day in the tech industry, but at night, she reads books, writes stories, throws axes, and is an avid gamer with a current addiction to Azul. Goto: https://mleaden.com/links/ for more!
Mel Deliz @meldeliz.bsky.social 
Sollette Savant @sollette.bsky.social I scribble on paper a lot and call it art. My name is adorably alliterative. Rumors that I am a werewolf are grossly unexaggerated.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🥀
Mike Dyer-Evans @mikedewrites.bsky.social Aspiring fantasy writer currently working on my debut - 'The Faceless Queen'. He/him, bisexual, lurcher owner, and forever DM.
Drea @dreawrites.bsky.social Fantasy writer. Chaotic bisexual. Elder Goth (but lazy about it). Giant geek. MFA. Can be bribed with tea and tiny cakes. She/her. Lady of the Bridges releases in 2026. https://dreawrites.com/
@allymcrory.bsky.social @allymcrory.bsky.social 
T.F. Author🏳️⚧️🥺😭 @tfauthor.bsky.social Author of Trying to Kill the Sun and a general sad man 🏳️⚧️ ♋️✍️📖 30, author of M/M https://tfauthor.com
linktr.ee/tfauthor
He/They
erika @scarletchaoserika.bsky.social 
Sarah Celiann @sarahceliann.bsky.social Just another nerd writing stories about space.
Lauren ✨ is editing ✨ @laurengoodfellow.bsky.social Your friendly tattooed ADHD bisexual who loves reading, writing and cozy games!
📚: Freakslaw
✍🏻: Sapphic/ bi awakening rom com
📍: Australia/ UK
Tammy Qualls @tammyquallsauthor.bsky.social Romance and mystery author. Bisexual/queer feminist. Eats books for breakfast. She/Her pronouns.
linktr.ee/tammyquallsauthor
Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social Literary translator from Spanish, bookworm, cat lover...
https://ruthdonnellytranslates.co.uk/
Mahmud Rahman @mahmudwriter.bsky.social Writer. Translator. Short stories: Killing The Water, 2010, Penguin India. Translation: Black Ice, 2012, HarperCollins India. Nomad - Dhaka, Calcutta, Tulsa, Boston, Detroit, Providence, Bay Area, LA, Toyota, Philadelphia. 2025 NEA Translation Fellow.
Kelvin @kelvino23.bsky.social IYKMYKM
E.K. Bartlett @ell-therewriter.bsky.social Writes, rewrites, and translates FR>EN. Sells translation rights at an independent publisher by day, transforms into a poet by night. they/them/iel 🌈🖊️
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
Shara Kronmal @skron11.bsky.social Writing, translation and psychiatry. Assoc Editor Longform CNF @craftliterary. Translating French-English. Essays, transl. & reviews: @HungerMtn, @pleaseseemelit1, @JAMANetwork, @NecessaryFic, @worldkidlit, @ChicagoRevBooks @mayday.mag . Insta: @skron11
Nadine Mondestin @proteanintl.bsky.social 🇭🇹. Translator/Interpreter of the Black Atlantic. Haitian Creole, Jumiekan, AAVE, Spanish, English, French...
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social Translator of excellent Norwegian books.
Jan Steyn @jsteyn.bsky.social Literary Translator | World Lit Scholar | Longdog Lover | Supporter of Losing Cricket Teams
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
Anna Gunin @annagunin.bsky.social Translator from Russian of Svetlana Alexievich, Pavel Bazhov, Oleg Pavlov and others
🍉 🗝️ 🌻- H Helen Wang @helenwanglondon.bsky.social UK-based researcher, translator, editor (silk roads, textiles, money, collections, Chinese children’s books). Previously at the British Museum, currently at Zhejiang University, and University of Leeds
Jay Boss Rubin @jaybossrubin.bsky.social Literary translator from Kiswahili. Out now: ROSA MISTIKA by Euphrase Kezilahabi (Yale UP); THE WITNESS OF NINA MVUNGI AND OTHER STORIES by Esther Karin Mngodo (Hanging Loose Press). I also serve as Deputy Editor of Portland Tennis Courterly.
Tony Hao @tonyhao.bsky.social Lit Translator CN -> EN | tonyhao.com | Words in @grantamag.bsky.social @theoffingmag.bsky.social and more | Currently translating Tong Wei-Ger 童偉格 | The Granum Translation Prize 2024
Catharine Cellier-Smart | Smart Translate @smart-translate.bsky.social French 🇫🇷 to English 🇬🇧 sworn translator.
Brit-born resident of 🇷🇪, traveller, scuba diver, tea drinker.
Blog: http://asmarttranslatorsreunion.wordpress.com/
Website: https://smart-translate.info/
Beth Kearney @besskearney.bsky.social Early Career Academic (contemp literature, esp. women’s writing and experimental autobiography in French). 🌺 Based in Meanjin. 🌻 http://bethkearney.com/
bella creel @bellacreel.bsky.social writer & other things
kobe, jp ⚓️
theredraft.substack.com
Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com
ana @anazetta.bsky.social reader.
de/en/it →es translator.
literature, philosophy, music, history, arts
Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social Translator, Editor and Mentor
Royal Literary Fund Fellow
Translating: Kim de l'Horizon, Joachim B. Schmidt, Anna Kim, Urs Faes and more
jamieleesearle.com
The Common @commonmag.bsky.social The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
Elisabeth Goemans @elisabethgoemans.bsky.social 🔸Belgian PhD student at University of Edinburgh, Teacher of Dutch literature
🔸Translation, transnationalism, Argentina, women's writing, book markets.
Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social (she/her) Reader, executive editor HarperOne Group, teach Publishing Works in Translation @NYU SPS, translator (French, Spanish), musician (Tissue, Boundaries)
Michael Holtmann @michaelholtmann.bsky.social Gadabout. Book person. President of the Center for the Art of Translation and its imprint Two Lines Press. (Image: "Opticks 008" detail, Hiroshi Sugimoto.)
AGC @agc1985.bsky.social Green, queer, socialist, widow, translator, geek (he/him). Based in Southampton, UK.
Alycia Calvert @alyciacalvert.bsky.social (She/Her) 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ | #Typos | Writes weird hybridy things | EIC @HarperPalate | Res '22 & '24 | MFA '22 | PhD '26 | @hecatemagazine @thebansheejournal @writersrebel 🇵🇸🇨🇩
https://linktr.ee/alycia.calvert
Lissie Jaquette @lissiejaquette.bsky.social Executive Director at Words Without Borders | Arabic translator, most recently of Adania Shibli's MINOR DETAIL, and of works by Rania Mamoun, Basma Abdel Aziz, Dima Wannous & more
Stacey Tecot 🌵 @stecot.bsky.social Primatologist, conservationist, evolutionary anthropologist at UArizona. I study the hormones, behavior, and ecology of wild primates. Currently researching cooperative infant care and maternal-child health in lemurs in Madagascar & people in Tucson, AZ.
Jason Grunebaum @jasongrunebaum.bsky.social Translator of Hindi lit / @SALTatChicago / @ArmorySqPrize / Fiction writer / #FacultyForward and proud member of #SEIULocal73
Neil Blackadder @neilblackadder.bsky.social Translator of drama and prose from German and French; retired theatre prof. Football fan.
Ezra E. Fitz @ezrafitz1901.bsky.social Translator. Librarian. Rap dad.
Sarah Pybus @sarahpybus.bsky.social German to English translator (tourism/leisure, environment, higher education, media/entertainment and literature). Main joys in life: travel, cinema, books, lindy hop, swimming, walking and paddle boarding. She/her
Isabella Corletto @isacorletto.bsky.social 📚 literary translator from ES/IT to EN | 🇬🇹
https://isabellacorletto.com/
Russell Scott Valentino @russellv.bsky.social Writing *Sea of Intimacy: The Adriatic Real & Imagined.* Translation • place • kinship • words • water • crossings. Find me in complete sentences at russellv.com
Jen B @jenbusch.bsky.social Wine lover, cake maker, translator, editor