Translation, scholarship, and original writing can function as reciprocal props, platforms, and opportunities for performance. Panelists will talk about the myriad paths they’ve traveled, as their translation work has led them to write biographies, literary and cultural studies, memoirs, poems, and fictions (in which translators may be starring characters!). This will be a discussion about working lives, works in-progress, and the shifting literary precincts we call “home.” Moderator: Marguerite Feitlowitz Participants: Esther Allen Aaron Coleman Katrina Dodson Stefania Heim Bruna Dantas Lobato Liliana Valenzuela

American Literary Translators Association 41st Annual Conference, Bloomington, IN