Sunday, October 25, 5 PM: An Evening of Translated and Original Short Fiction and Poetry
Free Event, Books Available for Purchase
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An evening of translated and original short fiction and poetry.
Join writer-translators D.P. Snyder, Amalia Gladhart, Karen McPherson, and Amanda Powell
for new work and conversation about literary collaboration and writing while translating.
D. P. Snyder is a writer, poet, critic, and literary translator from Spanish. Her work has appeared in many magazines, and her book-length translations include Meaty Pleasures by Mónica Lavín, Arrhythmias by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, and Scary Story by Alberto Chimal, all contemporary Mexican authors. She is the Latin American Fiction editor at the Canadian magazine Exile Quarterly and an editorial board member at Reading in Translation, the hub for criticism of translations by translators. Her writing and translations center on socially important issues, women's writing, and the lived experiences of women seen as "defective" in contemporary culture. Snyder lectures on and writes about A.I., most recently "Notes on AI: The Master's Tool" (World Literature Today, November 2025), and collaborative dynamics in the literary translation ecosystem. She is an adjunct professor of literary translation at the NYU School of Professional Studies and lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Amalia Gladhart is a writer and literary translator from Spanish. Her short fiction has appeared in The Common, Leon Literary Review, Talking River Review, New World Writing Quarterly, Necessary Fiction, and other journals. Published translations include Trafalgar and Jaguars’ Tomb, by Angélica Gorodischer (Argentina) and The Potbellied Virgin, by Alicia Yánez Cossío (Ecuador). She is a recipient of a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a past winner of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize. Her translation of Gorodischer’s Opus dos will be published in 2027. Her first novel, “Edge Pieces,” will be published by Regal House Publishing.
Karen McPherson is a post-academic, elderqueer poet and literary translator from Eugene, Oregon. Her poetry publications include Skein of Light (Airlie Press, 2014) and the chapbooks Sketching Elise (2012) and Long for This World (2024). Her published translations include Delft Blue & Objects of the World, poetic essays by Louise Warren (Guernica Editions, 2013); Up Close, a poetry collection by Louise Dupré (Ekstasis Editions, 2023); and The Backtalking Back of Words, a poetic abecedarian by Nicole Brossard (The Transformation Review Press, 2026). She is a former editor in the Airlie Press poetry collective.
Amanda W. Powell (she/her; Polish-Celtic-ish) has gotten lost countless times in the 17th century and various disco bars. She has published poems in anthologies and journals like Agni, Beyond Queer Words, Ploughshares, and Sinister Wisdom, and her chapbook Prowler (Finishing Line). She has held the Oregon Literary Fellowship in poetry and both a National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts grant for translation. She researches, translates, and writes about 16th- and 17th-century Spanish and Latin American women, with a focus on Spanish Baroque love poetry to women by women. The organization GEMELA, studying pre-1800 women’s cultural work, awarded her Lifetime Achievement recognition, including for “The Answer,” her co-edition of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (who, once you’ve Googled her, should be a household word in your casa!). Elsewise, Amanda helps rouse worthy rabble for our good fights; and lives in Eugene with her folk-musician-scholar-writer bride and a wee dog.