Jamie Lee Searle translates literature from the German and the Portuguese. Her publications include Twelve Nights, by Urs Faes; Kalmann, by Joachim B. Schmidt; and a co-translation of Angela Merkel’s memoir, Freedom. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and a co-founder of the Emerging Translators Network. 

Max Lawton is a writer, musician, and translator. He is currently working in close collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin to publish all of his untranslated works in English. Max is also currently working on or has plans to translate works by Antonio Moresco, Stefano D’Arrigo, Alberto Laiseca, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eduard Limonov, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hans Henny Jahnn, and Miquel de Palol. His first novel Progress is coming out with Verso in 2027. His translations have appeared in The New Yorker, n+1, Harper’s, The Baffler, The White Review, and Joyland. He lives in Los Angeles, where, when he isn’t writing, he plays heavy metal and noise music.

Kurt Beals is Visiting Associate Professor of German and Humanities Fellow in Literary Translation at the University of Richmond. He has translated a wide range of works from German into English. His translation of Jenny Erpenbeck’s speech and essay collection Not a Novel was included in World Literature Today’s "75 Notable Translations of 2020." Most recently, he has translated Erpenbeck’s collection of short essays Things That Disappear and re-translated two classic novels, Hermann Hesse’s The Steppenwolf and Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front.

Sophie Duvernoy is a literary translator and scholar of German literature. She received her PhD in German Literature from Yale University in 2023. Her translation of Käsebier Takes Berlin was published by New York Review Books in 2019 and shortlisted for the 2021 Schlegel-Tieck translation prize. Sophie has received translation grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and the Berlin Senate, and her writing and translations have appeared in Modern Language Notes, Paris Review Online, Los Angeles Review of Books, No Man’s Land, and The Offing. She lives in Berlin, Germany.

Joel Scott translates from German and Spanish into English. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies and has extensive experience in copywriting and editing in a range of fields. His strengths are in literature, art, and academic writing. His translation of the second volume of Peter Weiss’s magnum opus Die Ästhetik des Widerstands was published by Duke University Press in 2020 and received an honorable mention in the 2020 Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work.