Browse through all of the translators in WLT.


  • Sacha Idell is a writer and translator from Northern California as well as coeditor and prose editor of the Southern Review. His stories appear in Ploughshares, New England Review, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. His translations include work by the Japanese writers Kyūsaku Yumeno and Toshirō Sasaki. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.



  • Aqsa Ijaz is a PhD student at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. Her research focuses on the literary practices of early modern North India, especially of the Persian, Punjabi, and Urdu languages.



  • Elnur Imanbayli works at ADA University in Azerbaijan. He is deeply interested in learning about and promoting the heritage of his country.


  • Gesche Ipsen has a degree in English literature, a PhD in comparative literature from University College London, and was a commissioning editor for several years before becoming a freelance editor and translator.



  • Jayson Iwen is a poet, fiction writer, and professor who lives in the Twin Ports region of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.