alta mentorships

alta mentorships

The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to facilitate and establish a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator on a project selected by the emerging translator. The mentorship duration is approximately one year. The emerging translator is expected to choose a project that can be completed in a year’s time, and they will only be advised on that particular project.

  • Mentorships in Catalan, Korean poetry and prose, and Russian prose
  • Non-language-specific mentorships, one in poetry and one in prose
  • Book-length project to be completed during mentorship year
  • Projects to be presented at ALTA40: Reflections/Refractions (October 5-8, 2017 in Minneapolis, MN)

ALTA is pleased to announce that applications are open for the third year of the ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship program!

  • French, Polish, Russian, and Singaporean mentorships
  • Book-length project to be completed during mentorship year
  • Projects to be presented at ALTA39: Translation & Crossings (October 6-9, 2016 in Oakland, CA)

Sabrina Jaszi  Sabrina Jaszi is a fiction writer and translator of Russian fiction and poetry, based in Illinois. She earned her M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Florida and also holds an M.S.


Noah MintzNoah M. Mintz began translating at Vassar College, where he received his B.A. in Media Studies and French & Francophone Studies. During his third year there, he spent one semester living, studying, reading, and eating in France. Somewhere between Poughkeepsie and Paris, he caught the translation bug.

Eliza Rose (1)Eliza Rose grew up in Brooklyn, New York and has recently made herself at home in the foothills of northeast Los Angeles.

ALTA is pleased to announce the mentees for the inaugural year of the ALTA Emerging Mentorship program. Congratulations to our three exceptional emerging translators, chosen from more than 60 applications:

AnnaZarankoAnna Zaranko is a Polish-English translator living in the UK. Born to Polish parents who came to England following the War, it was some time before she realised that she was speaking two languages.

Joyce Zonana headshot 1Joyce Zonana is a reader, writer, teacher, and now a fledgling literary translator. She has been drawn to translation since her childhood growing up in a French-and-Arabic-and English-speaking Middle Eastern immigrant family.

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