Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit. Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish, Experiments in Joy, (ghost gestures), and the déjà vu. She teaches Translated Bodies at the California Institute of the Arts . The aim of her work is to open up space.

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Born in Andhra Pradesh, India, Madhu H. Kaza is a writer, translator, artist, and educator currently based in New York City. She is the author of Lines of Flight (forthcoming, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024) a work on translation, error, and the ongoingness of language and the translator of contemporary Telugu women writers including Volga and Vimala. She guest edited a folio of writing from less translated languages as a special feature for the Summer/Fall 2022 issue of Gulf Coast and served as a 2021 juror for the National Book Awards in Translated Literature. She is the editor of Kitchen Table Translation, a volume that explores connections between translation and migration, and which features BIPOC and immigrant translators, and her original work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Yale Review, Gulf Coast, Guernica, EcoTheo Review, Two Lines, Chimurenga, and more. She worked for several years for the Bard Prison Initiative, where she served most recently as Assistant Dean of the Microcolleges, and she teaches translation in the MFA program at Columbia University. She is at work on a book titled Vale of Cashmere.

Sawako Nakayasu works at the intersection of writing, translation, and performance. Publications include Pink Waves (Omnidawn), Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (Wave Books), and Say Translation Is Art (Ugly Duckling). She is an Assistant Professor in Literary Arts at Brown University.