AWARDS/HONORS
NEA Translation Fellowship for two books by Lebanese author Lamia Ziadé (2023)
Prix Albertine Jeunesse for Who Left the Light On? by Richard Marnier & Aude Maurel (2023)
MLA’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work - Honorable Mention for the translation of Anne F. Garréta’s In Concrete (2022)
PEN Translates awards for Lamia Ziadé’s My Great Arab Melancholy (2022) and My Port of Beirut (2023)
2021 PEN Translation Prize for the translation of Abdellah Taïa’s A Country for Dying
French Voices Award from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for Gwenola Ricordeau’s Free Them All: A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System (2021)
Paul D. Fleck Fellowship, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (2020)
French Voices Award from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for Javad Djavahery’s My Part of Her (2019)
2018 Albertine Prize winner for the translation of Anne F. Garréta's Not One Day
French Voices Award from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for Marcus Malte’s The Boy (2018)
French Voices Award from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for Brice Matthieussent's Revenge of the Translator (2017)
PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant for Ahmed Bouanani's The Shutters (2016)
NEA Translation Fellowship for Ahmed Bouanani's The Shutters (2016)
Fulbright Scholarship to translate and research the archives of Ahmed Bouanani in Morocco in partnership with the Dar al-Ma'mûn arts residency (2014-2015)
Travel Fellowship, American Literary Translators Association (2013)
Brown University's Rosalie Colie Prize for the highest degree of excellence in Comparative Literature for the translation of Anne Parian's Monospace (2013)
Judge for 2016 & 2017 Best Translated Book Award - poetry category
TALKS/EVENTS
UNIVERSITIES—
RISD: New Space(s) Inauguration Symposium panel on Translating Across Space(s) (2022)
Boston University: talk for the Translation Seminar Lecture series (2022)
Bennington College: talk for the Bennington Translates program (2021)
University of Denver: talk on “Translating Excess” with Sophie Hughes (2021)
Smith College: talk for The Art of Translation class (2020)
American University of Beirut: talk and translation workshop (2019)
UMass Amherst: translation workshop for National Translation Day (2019)
Smith College: conversation with the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute’s TranslationS seminar (2019)
American University of Paris: conversation with Frédéric Forte (2019)
UMass Amherst: conversation with Abdellah Taïa (2019)
UT Dallas: classroom visits and talk for Brice Matthieussent’s Revenge of the Translator (2019)
Bowdoin College: translation workshop (2019)
City University of New York: Translating Morocco event with Fouad Laroui (2016)
Smith College: classroom visit and talk for Anne Garréta’s Sphinx (2016)
CONFERENCES/PANELS—
National Centre for Writing panel “Meet the World: Translating Arab Graphic Novels” (2023)
National Books Critics Circle panel on reviewing translated literature (2021)
American Literary Translators Association Conference: panels on the practicalities of life as a literary translator & the role of footnotes in translations (2019)
New England Independent Booksellers Association Conference: panel on selling books in translation (2019)
Montclair Literary Festival: panel on translated literature (2019)
National Book Foundation Why Reading Matters Conference: panel on translated literature (2018)
WORKSHOPS—
Wendy’s Subway: “What Can a Translation Be?” experimental translation workshop (2021)
Poems from a University Quarantine: experimental translation workshop (2021)
BOOKSTORES—
411 Kent in Brooklyn, NY: event on the uses of translation (2023)
P&T Knitwear in New York, NY: event on translating constraint (2023)
Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA: virtual event for Marguerite Duras’s The Easy Life (2022)
Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY in partnership with The Rockwell Place: event for Marguerite Duras’s The Easy Life (2022)
Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY: event for Barbara Molinard’s Panics (2022)
Molasses Books in Brooklyn, NY: Us & Them writer-translator reading series (2022)
Codex Books in New York, NY: event for Lizzy Mercier Descloux’s Desiderata (2022)
Brazos Bookstore in Houston, TX: panel on the art of French translation (2022)
TYPE Books in Toronto, Canada: event for Anne Garréta’s In Concrete with Lauren Elkin (2021)
Riffraff Bookstore in Providence, RI: event for Javad Djavahery’s My Part of Her with the author (2020)
Brookline Booksmith in Boston, MA: event for Javad Djavahery’s My Part of Her with the author (2020)
Brookline Booksmith in Boston, MA: Art of Translation event with Jim Kates, Danielle Legros Georges, and Martha Collins (2019)
City of Asylum Bookstore in Pittsburgh, PA: Art of Translation Series with Brice Matthieussent (2019)
Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, NA: event for Brice Matthieussent’s Revenge of the Translator with the author and Alta Price (2019)
Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA: event for Brice Matthieussent’s Revenge of the Translator with the author (2019)
Deep Vellum Bookstore in Dallas, TX: event for Brice Matthieussent’s Revenge of the Translator with the author (2019)
McNally Jackson Bookstore in New York, NY: event with Alexandra Kleeman for Virginie Despentes’s Pretty Things (2018)
McNally Jackson Bookstore in New York, NY: event with Omar Berrada and Anna Della Subin for Ahmed Bouanani’s The Shutters (2018)
McNally Jackson Bookstore in New York, NY: New in French Translation event with Jonathan Larson and Elizabeth Zuba (2018)
Riffraff Bookstore in Providence, RI: event with Nika Lomazzo for Virginie Despentes’s Pretty Things (2018)
Albertine Bookstore in New York, NY: event with Anne Garréta and François Busnel for Anne Garréta’s Not One Day (2018)
Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop in in Brooklyn, NY: event with Donald Nicholson-Smith for Abdellatif Laâbi’s In Praise of Defeat: Selected Poems (2017)
Brookline Booksmith in Boston, MA: event with Kit Schluter for Anne Garréta’s Not One Day (2017)
Shakespeare & Company in Paris, France: event with Joanna Walsh for Anne Garréta’s Sphinx (2015)
Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, NY: event with Sarah Gerard and Ian Drieblat for Anne Garréta’s Sphinx (2015)
Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco, CA: event with Daniel Levin Becker and Veronica Esposito for Anne Garréta’s Sphinx (2015)