For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the literature they have published that is both written and translated by women. (Stay tuned for our National Translation Month reading list in September, which will feature additional works in translation!)
Literary Magazines
Translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine
Adi Magazine | 2026
The poem “Yafa” begins, “When I say Yafa, / the seagulls awake / like visions / from their drunken haze. / The sea recedes on my lips, / and I float.”
“Landscape with footprints in ash” by Selma Asotić
Self-translated from the Bosnian by Asotić
Philly Chapbook Review | 2025
This poem begins, “You must leave for the story to begin / is what fairytales taught me. / I left. My ghosts / now trail behind and weep. I try to comfort them.”
“Botanical Garden” by Olga Bragina
Translated from the Russian by Olga Zilberbourg
ANMLY | 2025
This poem begins, “at the Botanical garden on Saturday I saw a cute guy and thought I could be walking next to him right now / no of course I couldn’t / because within me is an anti-matter…”
Translated from the Turkish by Öykü Tekten
Turkoslavia | 2026
The poem “Wisteria” begins, “let’s return to the seed / my eyes sensed the winter / because i didn’t go out. i didn’t stretch out. / i didn’t encircle anything.”
“THE BURNING PRIMER” by Maša Kolanović
Translated from the Croatian by Ena Selimović
ANMLY | 2025
This story begins, “I have a fever. The numbers on the digital thermometer read 39.7 and the decimals keep climbing. When I retrieved the thermometer, it recalled the last temperature taken some six weeks back.”
Three Poems by Ekaterina Kostova
Translated from the Bulgarian by Holly Karapetkova
Apple Valley Review | 2025
The poem “Poetry” begins, “I remain with books / and with words of a foreign tongue. / What’s been said so far / closed between the pages of the leaves.”
Five Poems by Vitalija Maksvytė
Translated from the Lithuanian by Eglė Elena Murauskaitė
Vilnius Review | 2026
The poem “In the Petal Skirt-folds” begins, “all the darkness of this world is steeping within the skirt-folds of petals / Escherichia coli Fusobacterium nucleatum / Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis…”
Translated from the Italian by Leisa Loan
The Hopkins Review | 2026
The poem “Uniqueness” begins, “I believe this: / that you can’t change the name, / can’t change the face / of creatures already born / in the heart.”
“The Doll’s Death” by Sunethra Rajakarunanayake
Translated from the Sinhala by Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake
Southern Humanities Review | 2024
This story begins, “That our mother was descended from a Malayali family from Kerala had not been something that we had known, Malayali being a name that the Sinhala people connect to magic and spells.”
“Gray and Red” by Maria Valéria Rezende
Translated from the Portuguese by Cristina Ferreira Pinto-Bailey
New England Review | 2026
This story begins, “Many are the ways to satisfy a body’s cravings and desires, because, since the beginning of time, that’s really what living is, but now what afflicts Rosálio…”
“In the Dust” by Nathalie Schmid
Translated from the German by Ellene Glenn Moore
New England Review | 2025
This poem begins, “I stand in the kitchen / and write lists: A’s jokes / B’s lack of news / C’s own personal reality. / Inertia. Monster. / Dust.”
“The Other Side of the Float” by Tamaki Senomoto
Translated from the Japanese by Sharni Wilson
ANMLY | 2026
This story begins, “Fierce warrior faces loomed out of the night. The blood-stained warriors were painted on a fan-shaped paper lantern as tall as a house, the parade float that we were pulling along.”
Translated from the Russian by Sabrina Jaszi
The Dial | 2026
This story begins, “At five-thirty on the dot, the sound of simulated birds chirping from her phone tore Khalida-khanim from sleep.”
Translated from the Hungarian by Ágnes Megyeri
Neologism Poetry Journal | 2025
This poem begins, “crumble the rest of my life away without realising over no more early morning walks at the lake after making love no cold beer on the swabian hill…”
Translated from the Ukrainian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky
MER – Mom Egg Review | 2021
This folio features poetry by Natalka Bilotserkivets, Ania Chromova, and Halyna Kruk, all translated from the Ukrainian by Kinsella and Orlowsky.
“A Dark Stain on the House: Fifteen Landays” by Luisa Villa Meriño
Translated from the Spanish by Kim Jensen
Adi Magazine | 2025
The first poem in this collection of landays reads, “The men ordered us: ‘Cover yourselves,’ / then they concealed us beneath the same old skeletons.”
“The Third Future Tense” by Sandra Vlašić
Translated from the Croatian by Lara Radović
Turkoslavia | 2026
This novel excerpt begins, “I’ve been waiting for this day all year. And a special day it is. I finally have my prescription for tuna.”
from Unease in Steynsville (Onrus Op Steynshoop) by Ingrid Winterbach
Translated from the Afrikaans by Henrietta Rose-Innes
The Hopkins Review | 2025
This novel excerpt begins, “In a corner of the Green Lantern, Benjamin Potgieter—Benna—is drinking green tea and eating dim sum with chive and shrimp filling.”
“And if you call, Alice, Alice” by Woo Dayoung
Translated from the Korean by Hannah Kim
The Offing | 2026
This story begins, “When I opened my eyes to the light breeze, an open book was sitting on my lap. I was holding a page as if it were a feather, waiting for the next scene.”
Fiction
Dreams of Ayn Ara by Sara Abou Ghazal
Translated from the Arabic by Katharine Halls
Feminist Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781558613545
This novel “traces the worldwide, timewide scatter of the Abu Sukkar family in the wake of the 1948 Nakba and its displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.”
The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa
Translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain
Restless Books | 2024
ISBN: 9781632063342
This novel is a “perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government.”
Medea Sang Me a Corrido by Dahlia de la Cerda
Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary and Julia Sanches
Feminist Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781558613669
In this novel in stories, “a reimagined Medea helps a trophy girlfriend with her abortion, accompanies a mother in search of her lost son in the desert, and embraces tragic victims of the state and its proxy wars.”
My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova
Translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden
New Vessel Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781954404410
My Dreadful Body is “a dazzling debut novel about a young woman’s vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia, grappling under the weight of Muslim patriarchal norms and a debilitating neurological condition.”
The Last of Its Kind by Sibylle Grimbert
Translated from the French by Aleshia Jensen
Book*hug Press | 2025
ISBN: 9781771669559
In this novel set in the nineteenth century, a “curious researcher pulls a single wounded bird from the water, unaware that he has recovered what will eventually be the last of its kind.”
Translated from the Polish by Kate Webster
Two Lines Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781949641912
In these thirteen interconnected stories set “in a village in the remote countryside of southern Poland,” the characters “share, with the sincerest care and honesty, a local—yet so clearly universal—story of ruin and hope.”
Something That Helps by Mona Høvring
Translated from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson
Book*hug Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781771669801
Something That Helps is “an intimate and stirring coming-of-age and sexual awakening story of a young woman following her own path to destruction and reconciliation.”
12 Women + Under a Volcano by Svava Jakobsdóttir
Translated from the Icelandic by Esja Alyssa Matich
Open Letter | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960385-58-1
This short fiction collection “captures the impermanence of experience and examines the many faces of the phases of life, from childhood to old age.”
They Marched Under the Sun by Cris Judar
Translated from the Portuguese by Lara Norgaard
Fonograf Editions | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964499-63-5
This novel is about “violence, religious persecution, the loss of freedom and rights, as well as a statement on our need for ritual, dreams, and the resignification of bodies and social roles.”
She Who Remains by Rene Karabash
Translated from the Bulgarian by Izidora Angel
Sandorf Passage | 2026
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.”
On the Origin of Species and Other Stories by Bo-Young Kim
Translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell and Joungmin Lee Comfort
Kaya Press | 2021
ISBN: 9781885030719
The first translation of Kim’s work into English, this short story collection “teems with human and non-human beings, all of whom are striving to survive through evolution, whether biologically, technologically or socially.”
MyLifeandMyLife by Melinda Mátyus
Translated from the Hungarian by Jozefina Komporaly
Ugly Duckling Presse | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-946604-19-4
In this work of experimental fiction, Mátyus “zooms in on the loneliness of socially ostracized women, and is preoccupied with the psychological makeup of those experiencing confinement and forced captivity.”
Translated from the Danish by Caroline Waight
Graywolf Press | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-404-6
Nors’s novel is “a gripping investigation of the many kinds of distance we cross through space and time.”
The Girl Before Her by Line Papin
Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter and Ly Lan Dill
Ink & Blood | 2023
ISBN: 9781885030832
This “lyrical work of autofiction explores what it takes to embrace one’s multiracial, transnational self by making peace with the generations of women who’ve come before.”
Fortress of the Forgotten Ones by Fahmida Riaz
Translated from the Urdu by Sana R. Chaudhry
Open Letter | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960385-51-2
This historical novel “follows Mazdak, the first socialist revolutionary in history, as he challenges the power structures of his time, attempting to bring about a more fair and just society.”
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza
Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana
Dorothy, a publishing project | 2018
ISBN: 978-0-9973666-7-9
The Taiga Syndrome “follows an unnamed Ex-Detective as she searches for a couple who has fled to the far reaches of the earth.”
The Necklace of Seven Souls by Hooda Shawa
Translated from the Arabic by Nour Jaljuli and Sawad Hussain
Yonder | 2026
ISBN: 9781632064073
In this young adult novel, “two Palestinian teenagers discover secrets that change all they thought they knew about their family histories, and their own futures.”
Translated from the Korean by Janet Hong
Two Lines Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781966192008
In this short fiction collection, “as relationships tatter and bereaved loved-ones search for ways to move on, a stranger narrative emerges, one in which characters multiply and timelines diverge.”
Stepsisters: Short Stories by Irish Women Writing in Irish
Schaffner Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781639640867
This anthology, edited by Tara MacLeod and Brian Ó Conchubhair, features sixteen stories self-translated from the Irish by Éithne Ní Ghallchobhair, Deirdre Brennan, Róise Ní Bhaoill, Biddy Jenkinson, Katherine Duffy, Réaltán Ní Leannáin, and more.
The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes by Tatiana Țîbuleac
Translated from the Romanian by Monica Cure
Deep Vellum | 2026
ISBN: 9781646054091
This novel is a story “of three months in which mother and son finally lay down their weapons to make peace with each other and with themselves.”
City Like Water by Dorothy Tse
Translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce
Graywolf Press | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-375-9
According to James Kinsley, City Like Water is “that rarest of birds, a dreamlike and befuddling tale that is easy to consume, to gobble up quickly, leaving you hungry for more.”
Minerva by Keila Vall de la Ville
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
Regal House Publishing | 2026
ISBN: 9781646036738
Vall de la Ville’s novel “tells the story of a girl raised in a patriarchal, politically divided country, where her unique family is both a source of strength and a symbol of defiance.”
The Endless Week by Laura Vazquez
Translated from the French by Alex Niemi
Dorothy, a publishing project | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-948980-27-2
This debut novel is “a lyrical anti-epic about the beauty, violence, trauma, and absurdity of the internet age.”
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
Translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King
Graywolf Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-64445-315-5
Winner of the International Booker Prize 2026, this novel “unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.”
Poetry
A Dove Under My Hand: Sapphic Writings by Marina Tsvetaeva
Translated from the Russian by Sonja Franeta
Sinister Wisdom | 2026
ISBN: 9781970841022
This collection “highlights Tsvetaeva’s lesbian writings and cements her enduring legacy as a writer of radical emotional honesty and queer literary defiance.”
At the Edge: Selected Political Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Translated from the Russian by Margaree Little
Green Linden Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-08-8
According to Julia Nemirovskaya, the poems in this collection “don’t just reflect history; they confront it, denounce its brutality, and expose the militarism, cowardice, betrayal, and moral failure of democracies.”
With Death, an Orange Segment Between Our Teeth by Marie-Claire Bancquart
Translated from the French by Wendeline A. Hardenberg
Orison Books | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-949039-42-9
In these poems, Bancquart “combines an erudite vocabulary and references to classical literature with an earthy sensibility and a fascination with experiencing the smallest moments of everyday life fully.”
Nobody’s Saffron by Yaryna Chornohuz
Translated from the Ukrainian by Amelia Glaser
Arrowsmith Press | 2026
ISBN: 9798991525404
This collection “invites readers to overhear the poet grappling with an almost unbearable challenge: how to stay human under extreme circumstances few of us can imagine.”
A Little Pretty Personality by Berta García Faet
Translated from the Spanish by Kelsi Vanada
Cardboard House Press | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-945720-45-1
A Little Pretty Personality “summons writings from across eras to assay a communal hymn that examines historical trajectories and constructions of romance, love, and gender.”
Pink Tongue Out, Blind Cat by María Paz Guerrero
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
Phoneme Media | 2026
ISBN: 9781646054282
In these poems, “bodies are cut open in search of disease, legs buckle and collapse under pressure, and a blind cat stalks its way through the collection, bumping into unseen objects along the way.”
Closed Season by Monika Herceg
Translated from the Croatian by Marina Veverec
Sandorf Passage | 2025
ISBN: 9789533515311
In this poetry collection, Herceg uses hunting symbolism to “explore new ways to express the horrors women the world over have been, and are continually, forced to deal with in a painfully patriarchal world.”
Translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
Black Square Editions | 2025
ISBN: 9798986037028
These poems “explore the intimacy of language: the book begins with the narrator having lost her voice, her language, as well as her connection to her own body.”
Nobody Knows Us Here and We Don’t Know Anyone by Kateryna Kalytko
Translated from the Ukrainian by Olena Jennings and Oksana Lutsyshyna
Lost Horse Press | 2022
ISBN: 978-1-7364323-8-9
In these poems, “losses, wars, and abandoned houses … are elevated to the realm of the universal myth of home and its loss, akin to the banishment from the garden of Eden.”
Load Poems Like Guns: Women’s Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan
Translated from the Persian/Dari by Farzana Marie
Holy Cow! Press | 2015
ISBN: 9780985981884
According to Eavan Boland, this bilingual collection featuring eight contemporary Afghan women poets “gives an eloquent and wrenching witness to voices from another place and another poetry: voices with a unique mix of formal power and personal pain.”
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 | 2026
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.”
Earth’s Horizons by Michèle Métail
Translated from the French by Marcella Durand
Black Square Editions | 2020
ISBN: 9780999702840
Métail’s collection “recreates the earliest cartography of France as a series of verbal monoliths.”
Translated from the French by Cole Swensen
Green Linden Press | 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-10-1
According to Peter Gizzi, Monnier’s “exacting study of the power of the infinitive is an endless, almost breathless, catalogue of being, as in, ‘to’ be.”
The Book of Advice by Ghazal Mosadeq
Self-translated from the Persian by Mosadeq
Ugly Duckling Presse | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946604-40-8
This collection of poems “stems from the andarznameh tradition of classical Persian literature, a form that moves between verse and prose as it engages invented or familiar sayings and folktales.”
of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets / 20 Waka Poems
Translated from the Japanese by Naoko Fujimoto
Tupelo Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781961209572
Of Women collects “translations of Japanese waka-poems from the seventh century to the twelfth century, featuring twenty female poets from this period, when Japanese women’s literature flourished.”
The Water Horse by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Translated from the Irish by Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Wake Forest University Press | 2000
ISBN: 978-0-916390-93-8
Ní Dhomhnaill’s bilingual collection reminds us that “the power of myth lies in local and personal resurrections, such as the imaginary opening of her own great-grandmother’s tomb.”
Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Self-translated from the Irish by Ní Ghríofa
Wake Forest University Press | 2024
ISBN: 978-1-943667-16-1
This edition of the award-winning Irish-language poet’s work “revisits and reworks poems from her previous collection.”
Tupelo Press | 2026
ISBN: 9781961209589
Edited by Jennifer Jean and translated from the Arabic by members and collaborators of the Her Story Is collective, this anthology features “contemporary poetry by forty women poets from eleven Arab nations.”
JAWS by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza
Translated from the Spanish by Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier
Cardboard House Press | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-945720-43-7
This poetry collection “collapses the distance between sea and office, aquarium and classroom, factory and vacation resort, resumé and body under attack.”
Notes Scattered and Lost by Amelia Rosselli
Translated from the Italian by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard
Entre Ríos Books | 2025
ISBN: 9780960045778
This collection of Rosselli’s notes contains “bursts of inspiration that she enjoyed writing out by hand on tracing paper, along with passages cut from longer work she found unsatisfactory.”
Translated from the Russian by Martha M. F. Kelly
Slant Books | 2023
ISBN: 978-1-63982-141-9
This poetry collection “bears witness to the values of generosity, attention, and non-violence” and forms a “lyric sequence infused with folk wisdom and anchored in moral courage.”
A Field of Foundlings by Iryna Starovoyt
Translated from the Ukrainian by Grace Mahoney
Lost Horse Press | 2017
ISBN: 978-0-9981963-4-3
In A Field of Foundlings, Starovoyt “investigates Ukraine’s suppressed generational memory of the 20th century and the new context of its retelling in Eastern Europe.”
Don’t Hide the Madness by Nhã Thuyên
Translated from the Vietnamese by Kaitlin Rees
Ugly Duckling Presse | 2025
In this poetry collection, Thuyên “takes seriously the question of how to keep speaking, how to endure in language when it has been and continues to be drained of meaning.”
The Book of Destructions by Margarita Vélez Verbel
Translated from the Spanish by María Del Castillo Sucerquia
Unsolicited Press | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-89-5
The Book of Destructions “is a necessary breaking, a blaze set to the myths that have ruled women’s bodies and lives for millennia.”
A Whale Is a Country by Isabel Zapata
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
Fonograf Editions | 2024
ISBN: 979-8-9875890-0-7
According to Rajiv Mohabir, in this poetry collection Zapata “presents for us our precarious entanglements with the environment as destroyer gods and sensitive custodians.”
Nonfiction, Drama, and Multi-Genre Works
mPalermu, Dancers, and Other Plays by Emma Dante
Translated from the Italian by Francesca Spedalieri
Swan Isle Press | 2020
ISBN: 9780997228755
The seven plays in this anthology “challenge stereotypes of the country and stage acts of resistance against the social, political, and economic conditions of Sicily.”
Translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer
New Vessel Press | 2025
ISBN: 9781954404281
According to Booklist, this hybrid nonfiction book is an “intense reading experience presenting the human body as a foreign specimen under the surveillance of judging, watchful eyes.”
A Trip to Salto / Un viaje a Salto by Circe Maia
Translated from the Spanish by Stephanie Stewart
Swan Isle Press | 2004
ISBN: 9780967880877
This memoir “provides an intimate glimpse into Uruguayan history while it explores the deeper truths about an individual’s capacity to resist, adapt, and hope.”
A Different Cloth: Reimagining Faith and Feminism by Dania Suleman
Translated from the French by Nouha Gorani-Homad
Ronsdale Press | 2025
ISBN: 9781553807346
This book-length essay “offers a fresh perspective that acknowledges the empowering role religion can play in a woman’s life, while exploring meaningful ways to reconcile gender equality with freedom of religion.”
