F167. Local Learning for Literary Translation: Panel Discussion, Sponsored by ALTA
Friday, March 29, 2019
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Participants
Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a professional translator from Russian and Uzbek in Seattle, Washington, specializing in fiction for adults and children, poetry, academic texts, and other creative work. Shelley is the vice president of the Northwest Translators and Interpreters Society.
Katie King is a journalist, literary translator and digital media executive. She was a foreign correspondent in Latin American, launched news web sites for Reuters and translates Spanish fiction and poetry into English. She's currently a PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies at the UW in Seattle.
Timothy Gregory is an ATA Certified Arabic into English translator with over fifteen years of experience. He holds an MA in Translation from UIUC focused on literary translation, teaches translation technology at Bellevue College, and works as an in-house and freelance translator.
Mia Spangenberg is a Finnish-to-English literary translator living in Seattle. A freelance translator since 2016, she has worked in a variety of genres, including crime fiction, children's picture books, and YA fiction, as well as poetry and nonfiction.