Best Literary
Translations

Noh Anothai's translations range from classical Siamese poets to contemporary Thai authors. He has served as a judge for the Lucien Stryk Prize for Asian Literature in Translation and taught creative writing for almost a decade. Anothai received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (Track for International Writers) at Washington University in St. Louis in 2023. He adjuncts on the side while continuing his work on the anthology, which he has described as a vital creative and intellectual community beyond academia.

Wendy Call is the author, co-editor, or translator of eight books. She co-founded Best Literary Translations in October 2020 following a conversation with World Literature Today editor Daniel Simon. Call has been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia and Translator-in-Residence at the University of Iowa, as well as a fellow of Cornell University's Institute of Comparative Modernities and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative nonfiction in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University.

Joining the series with the 2027 edition, Sara Elkamel holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University and an MFA in poetry from New York University. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Field of No Justice (African Poetry Book Fund & Akashic Books, 2021) and Garden City (Beloit Poetry Journal, 2026). Her translations include Mona Kareem's chapbook I Will Not Fold These Maps (Poetry Translation Centre, 2023) and Dalia Taha's Enter World (Graywolf Press, 2026). Her awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Southeast Review's 2023 Gearhart Poetry Prize, the Michigan Quarterly Review's 2022 Goldstein Poetry Prize, Tinderbox Poetry Journal's 2022 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, Redivider's 2021 Blurred Genre Contest, and Columbia Journal's 2025 Online Translation Contest. She lives in Cairo.

Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is the publisher of OlongoAfrica.com. A Nigerian writer and linguist, he has authored two poetry collections — Edwardsville by Heart (2018) and Ìgbà Èwe (2021) — and a multimedia dictionary of Yoruba names. He is a Fulbright Scholar (2009) and a Chevening Research Fellow at the British Library in London (2019/2020). His language advocacy work earned him the Premio Ostana Special Prize in 2016. His journalism was nominated at the CNN African Journalists' Awards in 2015.

Öykü Tekten is a poet, translator, editor, and archivist living between Granada and New York. She was a series co-editor for the first three editions of Best Literary Translations (2024–2026), overseeing European and Middle Eastern literatures. She is a founding member of Pinsapo, a NY-based collective and press focused on work in and about translation, and a contributing editor and archivist with Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. She is the translator of Selected Poems by Betül Dünder (Belladonna* Collaborative, 2023) and co-translator of Separated from the Sun by İlhan Sami Çomak (Smokestack Books, 2022).