Writing Across Languages: Poets Who Translate a Discussion Panel

Join us Saturday, November 14, from 5:00 - 6:00 pm for a discussion panel with Johannes Görranson, Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, & Stine An!
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Translation is a dynamic and potentially transformative activity that draws transnational connections for writing. These three poets will discuss how they became involved in translating, who they translater and how translation feeds their own creative writing practices.

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Johannes Göransson is a poet, translator and editor. He has written ten books of poetry, hybrid work and criticism, including most recently Summer and (with Swedish writer Sara Tuss Efrik) The New Quarantine. His latest book, The Adorations, is forthcoming from Black Ocean (Spring 27). As a translator, he has published books by such Swedish as Aase Berg, Ann Jäderlund and Eva Kristina Olsson, as well as a book by the Korean poet Kim Yideum. He is editor of Action Books and Notre Dame Review.

Born and raised in México, Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador is a poet, editor, researcher, and translator. Her work has been supported by Tin House, Letras Latinas, The Kenyon Review Workshop, McCormack Writing Center, Community of Writers, among others. Lola is a PhD student at Emory University and a poetry reader for Poetry Northwest. She is working on her first poetry manuscript, which explores narco-violence, embodied memory, religion, and desire.

Stine An is a Korean/American poet, translator, and performer born in Cheonan, South Korea and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BA in Literature from Harvard and an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown, and has received fellowships and grants from The Poetry Project, the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, Yaddo, ALTA, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her publications include the translations Today's Morning Vocabulary (2025) and Winter Night Rabbit Worries (2026) by Yoo Heekyung and the chapbook S_MMER CR_SH (2025). Her debut poetry collection, B-Dragon Suite, won the 2023 Nightboat Poetry Prize and is available at your favorite bookshop.