Join editors Rachael Allen (Fitzcarraldo Editions, Granta Books), John McAuliffe (Carcanet), Stefan Tobler (And Other Stories) and Jeffrey Yang (New Directions, New York Review of Books) for a lively conversation on the current UK and US markets for literature in translation, chaired by Brian Sneeden (World Poetry Books). 

Rachael Allen is the author of Kingdomland (2019) and God Complex (2024), both published by Faber. Her works has received a Northern Writers’ Award and an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She is the poetry editor of Fitzcarraldo Editions, and previously she edited the literary quarterly Granta and oversaw the poetry list for Granta Books. She was born in Cornwall and is currently a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London.  

John McAuliffe is the associate publisher of Carcanet. The Gallery Press has published his five poetry collections, including A Better Life (2002) which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. He teaches poetry at the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing

Stefan Tobler is the founder of And Other Stories, which in recent years has started publishing poetry, including by Lutz Seiler, Don Mee Choi, Shrikant Verma and Kim Hyesoon. Novelists and poets he has translated include Clarice Lispector, Raduan Nassar, Lutz Seiler and Antônio Moura. 

Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Line and Light (Graywolf Press, 2022), Hey, Marfa (Graywolf Press, 2018), Vanishing-Line (Graywolf Press, 2011), and An Aquarium (Graywolf Press, 2008). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s Sidetracks (New Directions, 2024); Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile (Phoneme Media, 2015), cotranslated with the author; Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies (Graywolf Press, 2012); Su Shi’s East Slope (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008); and Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate, Open Up (New Directions, 2017). He edited the anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems (New Directions, 2011), Time of Grief: Mourning Poems (New Directions, 2013), and the collection The Sea Is a Continual Miracle: Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman (University Press of New England, 2017). Yang works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and the New York Review of Books. He lives in Beacon, New York. 

Brian Sneeden is the author of Last City (Carnegie Mellon, 2018) and translator of four collections from the Modern Greek, including Phoebe Giannisi’s GOATSONG (Fitzcarraldo, 2025) and Cicada (New Directions, 2022), shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry. A co-founding editor of World Poetry Books, he is a senior lecturer in creative writing and publishing at Manchester Metropolitan University. 

This event is part of the 2025 Manchester Translation Series.

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