Elisa Wouk Almino

Translator

Email:

elisa.woukalmino@gmail.com

Website:

www.elisawoukalmino.com/

Twitter/X:

@ewoukalmino

Author's Bio

Elisa Wouk Almino is a writer, editor, and literary translator from Portuguese. Currently the L.A. senior editor at Hyperallergic and editor of Harlequin creature's online translation platform, her writing and translations have appeared in Guernica, Paris Review Daily, The Millions, The Nation, Hyperallergic, and Words Without Borders, among other places. In 2017, she published This House, a book of her Ana Martins Marques poetry translations. She is also the editor of a monograph on the American abstract artist Alice Trumbull Mason (forthcoming Spring 2020). She teaches online translation classes with Catapult and beginning January 2020 she will be teaching translation at UCLA Extension.

Writers Retreats:

Art Omi Writers Residency

Publications & Prizes

Book:

This House by Ana Martins Marques, translated from the Portuguese (Scrambler Books, 2017)

Journals:

6X6, a poem by Ana Martins Marques, translated from the Portuguese

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Asymptote, a poem by Luciany Aparecida , translated from the Portuguese

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Asymptote, a story by Caio Fernando Abreu, translated from the Portuguese

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Harlequin Creature, a poem by Ana Martins Marques, translated from the Portuguese

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Washington Square Review, a poem by Paulo Leminski, translated from the Portuguese

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Words Without Borders, a poem by Ana Martins Marques, translated from the Portuguese

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Latino/Latina/Latinx

Fluent in:

English, French, Portuguese

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Last update: Jun 19, 2019