August is Women in Translation Month! To help bookstores and libraries celebrate, we’ve put together this roundup of books of poetry and fiction—all both written and translated by women—to spotlight all month and year-round. (We publish longer reading lists each month as well—check out our most recent reading list for Women in Translation Month for more ideas!)
Fiction
Autobiography of Cotton by Cristina Rivera Garza
Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Graywolf Press | February 3, 2026
Distributor: Farrar, Straus and Giroux via Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-64445-369-8
In this novel, Rivera Garza “chronicles the way cotton transformed the borderlands by reconstructing the cotton workers’ strike and reveals how cycles of deprivation and ecocide persist across generations.”
Translated from the Polish by Kate Webster
Two Lines Press | February 10, 2026
Distributor: Publishers Group West
ISBN: 978-1-949641-91-2
In these short stories set “in a village in the remote countryside of southern Poland,” characters “share, with the sincerest care and honesty, a local—yet so clearly universal—story of ruin and hope.”
She Who Remains by Rene Karabash
Translated from the Bulgarian by Izidora Angel
Sandorf Passage | January 27, 2026
Distributor: Independent Publishers Group
ISBN: 9789533515748
This novel is set in a “rural Albanian village where, to this day, the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini—a collection of archaic laws—looms over the lives of villagers with the same haunting presence of the surrounding mountains.”
Translated from the Spanish by Alice Banks and Katie Whittemore
Open Letter | May 26, 2026
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 978-1-960385-49-9
“With three closely-drawn character portraits and the pacing of a thriller,” this novel set in Madrid “offers a geography of resilience and despair in a city marked by social and cultural division.”
The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Țîbuleac
Translated from the Romanian by Monica Cure
Deep Vellum | January 27, 2026
Distributor: Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
ISBN: 9781646054091
This novel is a “complex coming-of-age story unraveling the fragile, complicated, redemptive relationship between a mother and her son.”
City Like Water by Dorothy Tse
Translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce
Graywolf Press | March 3, 2026
Distributor: Farrar, Straus and Giroux via Macmillan
ISBN: 978-1-64445-375-9
According to Yuri Herrera, Tse’s second novel “addresses a central horror of our times: the overtaking of our cities and people by the powerful.”
Poetry
Red Seed: Poems for Luno by Cruz Alejandra Lucas Juárez
Translated from the Tutunakú and Spanish by Wendy Call and Whitney DeVos
Cardboard House Press | March 6, 2026
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-945720-41-3
According to Maricela Guerrero, this trilingual chapbook “expands the powerful presence of Tutunakú roots to open up territories and to interweave desirous bodies, dream relationships, and the memories of women ancestors.”
Song of the Yellow Asters by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger
Translated from the German by Carlie Hoffman
World Poetry Books | March 25, 2026
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-954218-44-4
These poems by Paul Celan’s cousin “explore love, nature, and the human spirit under occupation and amid the Holocaust.”
JAWS by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza
Translated from the Spanish by Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier
Cardboard House Press | May 21, 2026
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-945720-43-7
“Through (mis)translation, documentary fragments, and cinematic archive,” the poems in this collection “reveal how capital renders certain lives expendable, human and non-human alike.”
The Book of Destructions by Margarita Vélez Verbel
Translated from the Spanish by María Del Castillo Sucerquia
Unsolicited Press | March 31, 2026
Distributor: Asterism Books
ISBN: 978-1-963115-89-5
This poetry collection is “a necessary breaking, a blaze set to the myths that have ruled women’s bodies and lives for millennia.”
