Based in Marseille, Katie Shireen Assef reads, writes, and translates from French and Italian into English.

Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in 3:AM, La Piccioletta Barca, Tiny Molecules, Complete Sentence, Terrazzo Mag and Agni Online.

You can read about her translation of Valérie Mréjen’s novel Black Forest here.

Co-translation with Claire Foster of Bertrand Schefer’s essay “With Sans Soleil,” in The Kenyon Review

Excerpt from Valérie Mréjen’s Eau Sauvage, in The Dial

Excerpt from Roberto Alajmo’s Fools of Palermo: An Inventory, in The Offing

Excerpt from Pierric Bailly’s The Woodsman, in Asymptote

Excerpts by Arno Calleja in SARKA and Blue Arrangements

Selected poems by Arno Calleja, in La Piccioletta Barca

“Earshot,” a short story by Guka Han, in The Dial

Excerpt from Carmen Verde’s A Minimal Unhappiness, in Asymptote

Letters by Scholastique Mukasonga and Max Lobe, in The Dial

Letters from Inside Iran’s Evin Prison in The Dial

“Pearls,” a short story by Guka Han, in Two Lines Journal

For a CV and complete list of publications, c’est par ici.

Recently, in translation……