#SFinTranslation out today (1/2): THE WEEK OF COLORS by Elena Garro, tr from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (@twolinespress.com) NOT YET GODS by Djuna, tr from the KoreanJihyun Park and Gord Sellar (@kayapress.bsky.social)

love this book mail from @twolinespress.com

The 2026 Stevns Prize is open for submissions from now until February 1, 2026! www.stevnstranslationprize.com

This sounds fantastic (and the cover is gorgeous): Jazmina Barrera, The Queen of Swords (Christina MacSweeney, trans. @catranslation.org, @twolinespress.com, 2025) www.catranslation.org/shop/book/qu...

SEA NOW hints "at mysteries that humans can sense but never penetrate," writes critic Rebecca Hussey. Read the book review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews... @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org

Jazmina Barrera's THE QUEEN OF SWORDS, translated by Christins MacSweeney (11/11/25) is in great company on Ms. Magazines November Reads for the Rest of Us! msmagazine.com/2025/11/01/b...

“SEA NOW is one of several novels that ask how humans live in an apocalypse that isn’t impending but has actually arrived.” Read Rebecca Hussey on Eva Meijer’s SEA NOW (tr. Anne Thompson Melo): buff.ly/ZtpAsrS @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social @catranslation.org @twolinespress.com

Check out our newest NBA interview with author Mohamed Kheir and translator Robin Moger! Together, they discuss SLEEP PHASE, longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature: buff.ly/tlaTIqr @twolinespress.com

Our Calico Series is open for submissions for 🐾 animal stories 🐾 in translation! Open to translations from any language into English, word count between 2k to 10k words, deadline January 15, 2026! Full submission details here: www.catranslation.org/books/submit...

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org TOMORROW 10/17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

We interviewed author Jazmina Barrera and translator Christina MacSweeney about their National Book Award-longlisted novel, THE QUEEN OF SWORDS. Read the interview: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @twolinespress.com

some new books and I could not resist this cute tote with a subscription from @twolinespress.com 📚✨

Through the mail slot today. Sea Now by Eva Meijer, translated from the Dutch by Anne Thompson Melo. And an excellent tote bag. www.catranslation.org/shop/book/se... @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org

"In its regard for other-than-human Earthlings—acknowledging that they exist, that our lives and stories are also theirs, that they engage in a porous exchange—Sea Now joins Meijer’s rich oeuvre of novels and philosophical meditations on multispecies coexistence." 🌊🐃 🐋

For ASYMPTOTE I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo, published by @twolinespress.com and Peirene Press. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/10...

Bay Area folks, this one sounds fun!

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org TONIGHT @ 7 pm at Telegraph Hill Books to celebrate the release of HAIR ON FIRE. This collection of 5 female Afghan poets is a blazing tribute and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

I have a pile of new Aug/Sep publications to read (birthday month acquisitions). 🎂🎉 I’ve only finished three so far (Zambreno, Romano & Mendelson—all recommended), so I have a long way to go. Ravn & Lin are next!

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 17 @ 6:30 pm at CounterPulse for a listening party debuting 3 audio lit in translation adaptations.This guided event features Camilo Garzón and special guests, Noelle de la Paz, Monica Cure, and Amanda Nazareno. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

Bay Area! Join us and @litquake.org on Oct. 11 @ 7 pm at Telegraph Hill Books to celebrate the release of HAIR ON FIRE. This collection of 5 female Afghan Poets is a blazing tribute and a reminder of what we lose when voices are silenced. RSVP: www.catranslation.org/event/litqua...

I have a new rundown of recent books in translation up at @wwborders.bsky.social!

NO EDGES: SWAHILI STORIES (@twolinespress.bsky.social) is on our #TranslationMonth reading list! These eight stories from East African writers feature “tales of sorcerers, Nairobi junkyards, cross-country bus rides, and spaceships that blast prisoners into eternity”: bookshop.org/p/books/no-e...

In SLEEP PHASE, Mohamed Kheir “uses his characters’ ever-shifting perception of their surroundings to probe the truths around globalization and its consequences.” A @twolinespress.bsky.social novel (transl. by Robin Moger) from our #TranslationMonth list: www.catranslation.org/shop/book/sl...

Thank you for helping us reach our goal of 75 new Two Line Press memberships which helps us cover 50% of our printing costs for an entire year! We have a few tote bags left, and you can still get one if you sign up as an annual member (U.S. based only!) ...while supplies last!

Queen of Swords is less a biography & more the record of Jazmina Barrera being haunted by the ghost/spirit/idea of Mexican author Elena Garro. Told in weaving vignettes drawn from deep research in Garro's archives, you'll probably feel haunted by the end too. Out on 11/11

Finished reading the #poetry anthology "Cigarettes Until Tomorrow: Romanian Poetry." amzn.to/3IOhhex 📖🇷🇴 This was just exceptional...except for the fact that none of the contributors have books in English I can get. Ah well. #books #reading #poems @twolinespress.bsky.social #BookSky #PoetrySky

One week from today at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco: "Celebrating Euphrase Kezilahabi," presented by @catranslation.org / @twolinespress.bsky.social. I'll be reading from ROSA MISTIKA and conversing w/ the endlessly thoughtful Annmarie Drury :) www.catranslation.org/event/jay-bo...

Brooklyn! Hope to see you today at booth #626 at the @bkbookfest.bsky.social! We've got translated literature and you can walk away with brand new tote for your book haul if you sign up for our membership today: www.catranslation.org/books/member...

As the name suggests, the new #poetry anthology "Hair On Fire: Afghan Women Poets" presents #poems by women from a country where they haven't always been allowed to write. Here's the link to my interview with "Fire" editor Sarah Coolidge. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🇦🇫

Come see us this Sunday at booth #626 at the @bkbookfest.bsky.social! We'll have our latest books, backlist favorites, and...our brand new membership tote bag available for anyone who joins as a Two Lines Press member! www.catranslation.org/books/member...

Join us TODAY for the DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Free in-person or virtual registration open now for our three 12-5 pm panels. The first 3 events will be livestream and video links will be emailed to everyone who registered a couple of weeks after the event.

Want to expand your view of world literature in ways you couldn't previous have guessed at? Join as a Two Lines Press member by 9/21 and receive a brand new tote bag and a year's worth of books that come highly praised by @themountaingoats.bsky.social! www.catranslation.org/books/member...

Through the mail slot today. Grace Period by Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. www.catranslation.org/shop/book/gr... @catranslation.org @twolinespress.bsky.social

GRACE PERIOD by the wonderful Maria Judite de Carvalho, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa @twolinespress.bsky.social Some thoughts from me on the novella here (and on Goodreads). Many thanks to Two Lines for the ARC! mandysuzannewong.substack.com/p/grace-period

"In focusing only on five poets, Hair on Fire brings their stature into focus, recognizing these writers’ place in a global, feminist canon. You could never make me believe that poetry has no meaningful effect—not when collections like this exist." www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/09...

We're 1 week away from DAY OF TRANSLATION 2025! Join us on 9/18 at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn, NY. Free in-person or virtual registration open now for our three 12-5 pm panels. *Please note the keynote with Jhumpa Lahiri and Katie Kitamura is SOLD OUT.

We're 5 days into our Member Drive! There's no better time to join as a Two Lines Press member! We have a brand new tote for you, and a slate of incredible forthcoming books this fall, starting with SEA NOW by Eva Meijer, tr. Anne Thompson Melo! Join by 9/21! www.catranslation.org/books/member...

Delighted to share that THE QUEEN OF SWORDS by Jazmina Barrera, out soon in English with @twolinespress.bsky.social (tr. Christina MacSweeney), was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature—congratulations! 🎉 @nationalbook.bsky.social www.indentagency.com/la-reina-de-...

Congratulations to Two Lines authors & translators Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney, Mohamed Kheir, and Robin Moger 🎉 Sleep Phase and The Queen of Swords are both longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...

Today until 9/21, all NEW Two Lines Press members will receive the new CAT @catranslation.org tote bag! A membership gets you early access (w/ free U.S. shipping included) for all our books (8-10/year), plus exclusive member gifts. Join us! www.catranslation.org/books-member...

We're hiring a temporary, part-time Operations Assistant. This is an in-person role that supports the day-to-day operations of our San Francisco office and keeps our accounts, book memberships, and programs running smoothly. Apply by 9/22. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

New on Book Post: Robert Lee Williams resonates with “traumatic powerlessness” in the work of Astrid Roemer. Read here→ books.substack.com/p/review-rob... @twolinespress.bsky.social

One month from today @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in San Francisco (and via livestream): "Celebrating Euphrase Kezilahabi – with Jay Boss Rubin and Annmarie Drury." I'll be reading from Rosa Mistika, and in conversation with a fellow translator of Kezilahabi. Karibuni! citylights.com/events/celeb...

In BACKLIGHT by Pirkko Saisio (translated from the Finnish by Mia Spangenberg), “the personal and political are not collapsed but interlinked, and revolution is closely tied with sensuality.” Read a novel from @twolinespress.bsky.social for #WITMonth: www.catranslation.org/shop/book/ba...

#WITMonth still rolling @twolinespress.bsky.social

if you have a scratch and don't mind committing to getting 12 books, the subscription is awesome. stuff you've never heard of showing up in the mail once a month. I am v. excited for the Afghan Women Poets volume coming in the fall www.catranslation.org/books/member...

this reminds me I should also mention @twolinespress.bsky.social in my list of great translation houses. if you only read Two Lines publications for a year you'd emerge having expanded your view of world literature in ways you couldn't previously have guessed at

#SFinTranslation from Independent American Publishers: www.sfintranslation.com?p=14995 @openletterbooks.bsky.social @deepvellum.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social @ndbooks.bsky.social @twolinespress.bsky.social @europaeditions.bsky.social

Want them all, @twolinespress.bsky.social 😍 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...