Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith is a WLT intern studying writing at the University of Oklahoma. She hopes to someday write a book high school students will be forced to read. When she isn’t writing, she serves as a volunteer barista in a nonprofit campus corner coffee shop.

The Latest from Georgia, Home of Khachapuri and a Blossoming Translation Scene

May 27, 2014 | Sarah Smith

Khachapuri. Photo by Robyn Lee Though the Republic of Georgia has a strong literary past, especially in the medieval era, the Soviet shadow and the country’s singularly difficul...
New Books: Kitty Lit

May-August 2014
Sarah Smith

Cat people: we aren’t known for much other than spinsterhood, paranoia, emotional and social disconnection. Our one spokesperson who’s more than quaint at best is Catwoman. But lately there’s been...
Translating Norway’s Love of Literature

April 15, 2014 | Sarah Smith

A Conversation with Don Bartlett A bookshop in Stavanger, Norway. Photo by Marie Guillaumet/Flickr In Norway, many bookstores carry a wide variety of translated fiction, noticea...
Recent Palestinian Literary Activism

June 5, 2013 | Sarah Smith

Poetry has a long history in the Middle East (as author Khaled Furani examines in one of the new books listed below), and Palestinians in the footsteps of Mahmoud Darwish and many other predecessors a...
An Eight-Country Tour of Fantasy Literature

November 29, 2012 | Sarah Smith

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (2004, England) Susanna Clarke It’s 1806 and Britain is ravaged by the Napoleonic Wars—that is, until a Mr Norrell comes to the aid of his country with his magic. Soon,...
Not Just Dragons and Wizards: Translations of Literary Fantasy

October 23, 2012 | Sarah Smith

Many times when we think of fantasy or science fiction, we think of trite stories of dragons, wizards, and maybe some machine-gunned armies on distant planets. But throughout the world, fantasy and sc...