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Doğa Ayar
Editor-in-Chief
Raised in Istanbul, Doğa Ayar studied Philosophy and French at Reed College. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa, translating between Turkish, English, and French. Her work focuses on voice, perception, memory, and displacement. She is currently translating a poetry collection by Lale Müldür and Mikel Dufrenne’s “L’œil et l’oreille.”
Devanshi Khetarpal
Editor-in-Chief
Devanshi Khetarpal is an MFA Candidate in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. She translates from Hindi and Italian, and serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor for The Bombay Literary Magazine. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where she was a Sonny Mehta and Truman Capote fellow in fiction, her work has been published in Asymptote, The Threepenny Review, Indiana Review, Public Books, and Poetry at Sangam, among others. Devanshi’s work has received support by English PEN, SALT (South Asian Literature in Translation) Project at the University of Chicago, and Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, among others. Devanshi is currently translating Mayank Jain Parichha’s collection of satirical short stories titled Nietzsche Gets a Thrashing, and working on a short story collection and novel. She is from Bhopal, India
Mary Zhou
Editor
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Luca Morante is a first-year Literary Translation MFA student working from Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Before starting at Iowa, Luca earned a BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an MPhil in Literary Translation from Trinity College Dublin. His MPhil thesis on the poet Eugenio Montale proposed a technique for translating verse into music that used homophonic translations of Montale’s poems as intermediaries. Luca’s interest in compositional constraints and experimental procedures is partly driven by a background in percussion performance and composition. He is currently working on the early diaries of Italian novelist Elsa Morante.
Emilia Giulia Tozzi
Editor
Emilia Giulia Tozzi is a first-year MFA student in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. She holds a bachelor's degree in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation from the University of Bologna and a master's degree in Specialized Translation from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, working with Italian, English, and Spanish. She primarily translates prose, with a particular focus on nonfiction, memoir, and essays. Her current interests include gender studies and feminist literature.
Isabelle Anne Davis
Editor
Isabelle Anne Davis is from LeClaire, Iowa and was born on the Mississippi. She translates from the Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Uzbek. As an MFA student in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa, she is interested in contemporary Turkophone literary productions and writers from the 1980s onward, whose writings stage critiques of the monocultural, monolinguistic nation-state and imagine different affective modes of collectivity. Currently, her translation work focuses on Turkish-language poetry and prose that produce pluralistic narratives of the histories, ecologies, and memories in eastern Anatolia. Isabelle also holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Chicago, where she researched the entanglements of supra/national ideologies with visual and literary productions from Turkey and Azerbaijan. She was a 2022–23 Fulbright ETA in Trabzon, Turkey. Isabelle likes to imagine that if the Black Sea is the run-off from Noah’s flood as Leylâ Erbil supposed in A Strange Woman, then the Mississippi is its North American counterpart, formed of meltwater remnants.
Daria Shchukina
Editor
Daria Shchukina is a literary translator from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She translates from Russian into English, and her interests include contemporary literature, émigré literature, feminist writing, and autofiction. An excerpt from her translation of Christine Jatkowsky's Painting of the World came out in World Literature Today in November 2026.
Mary Zhou is a translator of Mandarin Chinese and holds a BA in Chinese from the University of Washington and a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Ohio State University. Her literary and translation interests include speculative fiction and contemporary women's writing from the Sinosphere (and she particularly loves when a text is both!). In her free time, she likes to knit, play video games, and pine after her cat Maru, whom she left with her partner in Seattle.
Luca Morante
Kyla Deniz Walker
Editor
Kyla Deniz Walker is a first-year MFA candidate at the University of Iowa in Literary Translation, working from Italian to English. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Electric Literature, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Summit Books (S&S) and will be published in the summer of 2028.
Murray Helzer
Editor
Murray Helzer is a literary translator of Mandarin Chinese from the Ozark Foothills of Arkansas. He is a first year MFA student in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. A recent graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont with a degree in Chinese Language and Literature and a minor in Creative Writing, his work centers around translating maritime literature and eco-literature. In studying Mandarin Chinese, he has been able to travel to China and Taiwan and try many tasty street snacks and enjoys recreating the dishes he has tried abroad. His most recent translation endeavor involved translating five maritime essays from Taiwanese eco-writer Liao Hung-Chi’s debut essay collection The Life of the Fisherman.
Ritambhara
Editor
Ritambhara is an MFA candidate in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa with roots in Iowa City, Delhi, and Bhopal, She translates between Hindi and English. Her work usually explores the intersection between language politics and aesthetics; music and literature; young adult fiction and non-linear narratives. Ritambhara dreams of growing her own vegetables and playing plant music to them every morning as she reads and translates.
Antoinette Rose Goodrich
Editor
Antoinette Rose Goodrich (she/they/he) is a Spanish to English translator pursuing an MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa. Primarily, they focus on work from Latin American and are taking advantage of their opportunity as an MFA student to experiment with translating different genres, themes, works from varying time periods, and more. One of her enduring interests is in translating queer literature/queering translation and with a Stanley International Research Grant from the University of Iowa, he has spent five weeks in Lima, Peru to conduct research on queer linguistics and communities within Peru to support the translation of Historias Kabras by Arturo Dávila. Additionally, Antoinette has worked as a program assistant for the Center for Translation and Global Literacy’s 2026 Summer Institute on Translation Across the Undergraduate Curriculum. Currently, she is also serving as the Virtual Programming Assistant to the American Literary Translators' Association.