Chad W. Post is the director of Open Letter Books, a press at the University of Rochester dedicated to publishing contemporary literature from around the world. In addition, he is the managing editor of Three Percent, a blog and review site that promotes literature in translation and is home to both the Translation Database and the Best Translated Book Awards, and the author of The Three Percent Problem: Rants and Responses on Publishing, Translation, and the Future of Reading.  He was the 2018 recipient of the Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature. 

Katie King is a journalist and literary translator with a PhD in Hispanic Studies. Her translations of Spanish poetry and prose have been published in Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, Columbia Journal, Translation Review and in print anthologies published by Graywolf Press and Ecco Press. Her translation of the novel Someone Speaks Your Name by Luis García Montero, director of Spain’s Cervantes Institute, was published by Swan Isle Press in January 2023. An excerpt from her translation of small red women, by Spanish novelist Marta Sanz, will appear in the journal Spanish Riveter in April 2023.

Katie Whittemore, translator of the 10 of 30: New Spanish Narrative anthologies for 2019 and 2020 in collaboration with Spain’s AECID. Katie has several published translations, among them Four by Four by Sara Mesa (Open Letter Books, 2020); “Screech Owl” by Sara Mesa; Two Lines 30: The Future of Translation (Spring 2019); “Save Yourselves” by Lara Moreno, The Arkansas International 06 (Spring 2019); “Father and Son” by Flavia Company, Gulf Coast Online (Winter/Spring 2019); “A Lifetime” by Lara Moreno, The Common Online (Spring 2019); and more. She also has several upcoming translations being published. She is also an Instructor of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).   

For over 28 years, Lawrence Schimel has worked as a literary translator, primarily between Spanish and English. He is also an award-winning writer (in Spanish and English) and anthologist, with more than 120 books published in diverse genres. His own children's books have won a Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers & illustrators, and have been chosen by IBBY for Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities (three times) and by the International Youth Library in Munich for the White Ravens list. His own books have been translated into over 40 languages, including Romansch, Welsh, and Luxembourgish. He has given lectures, workshops, and readings at London Book Fair, Frankfurt Bookfair, SOAS, Yale University, Brown University, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Wayne State University, St. Louis University in Madrid, the Universidad de Cádiz, etc. and also regularly takes part in literary festivals.

Marta López-Luaces was born in A Coruña, Spain, in 1964, and lives in New York. She is a poet, writer and translator. She holds a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literatures from New York University (1998). She is a Professor at Montclair State University. She published La Virgen de la Noche (Madrid: Sial, 2009), a collection of short stories that got excellent reviews. Her novel, Los traductores del viento (Madrid-Monterrey, Vaso Roto, 2013) won the International Latino Book Award for Best Fantasy Novel, 2014. Penguin Random House, Ediciones B, Spain published her last novel El Placer de matar a una madre (The pleasure of killing a mother) in 2019. She also published five books of poetry Distancia y destierros (Sgo. de Chile: Red Internacional del Libro, 1998), Las lenguas del viajero (Madrid: Huerga y Fierro, 2005), Los arquitectos del imaginario finalist of the prestigious award Ausiás March was published by Pre-Texto 2011) and Después de la oscuridad (Valencia, Pre-Texto 2016).  The Spanish Press Olé will publish her next poetry in book, Talar un nogal in May 2022. A selection of her work was translated into Rumanian and published under the titled Pravalirea focului (Orient-Occident, 2010). Her poetry was also translated into Italian under the title of Accento Magico (San Marco, 2002). She also published two scholarly books, Ese extraño territorio: La representación de la infancia en tres escritoras latinoamericanas (Santiago de Chile: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2001) translated into English as The Representation of Childhood in Texts of Three Latin American Women Writers. (Delaware:  Juan de la Cuesta, 2004) and La poesía y sus máscaras: La representación de los nuevos sujetos democráticos en las obras de poetas argentines, españoles y chilenos. (Lima: Universidad de San  Marcos, 2008).  She was named Speaker for the Humanities of NYC (2003-05).