Allison Grimaldi-Donahue is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in Words Without Borders, The Brooklyn Rail, Electric Literature, Funhouse Magazine, The Fanzine and other journals. She has been an NEA Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center and a Bakeless Fellow at the Bread Loaf Translator's Conference. She regularly contributes essays and reviews to the American Literary Translators' Association Blog. She is fiction editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse and associate translation editor at Drunken Boat. She is a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School. Her chapbook Body to Mineral came out in 2016 with Publication Studio Vancouver.