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Last modified 2025-07-04
The Translated Hugo Initiative Working Group
Please note that this page is a work in progress, and doesn't yet include everyone who's contributed to the project!
THWG Members
- Jake Casella Brookins is a critic & independent scholar. He's the host of the podcast A Meal of Thorns and the publishing editor at the Ancillary Review of Books. A former bookseller and frequent bookclubber, his organizing background includes being the head of literary programming for Chicon 8. Find links to his reviews, projects, & social media here.
- Rachel Cordasco is a Wisconsin-based independent scholar, artist, and translator of Italian speculative fiction. Her book Out of This World: Speculative Fiction in Translation from the Cold War to the New Millennium is out from the University of Illinois Press. Find her at sfintranslation.com.
- Eden Kupermintz holds a B.A in history and philosophy and has been fascinated with and passionate about science fiction, metal and literature for the past two decades. Eden curates the online archive anarchySF, is co-host for the Death // Sentence literary podcast, is editor-in-chief for Heavy Blog is Heavy, and does some work for corporations so he can eat.
- Alexander Dickow writes in French and English and has authored a weird SF novel called Le Premier Souper (La Volte, 2021). He has translated several works, including the bestselling French SF novel The Horde of Counterwind by Alain Damasio (2004), which should theoretically finally be released some time in 2026 or 2027 (the first chapter is available as a sample online). His current SFF-related translation project is Anouck Faure's cosmic-horror/dark fantasy tale The Gossamer City (La Cité diaphane, Argyll, 2023). He is also at work on a new weird SF novel in French under the working title La Greffe.
- Kat Kourbeti is a queer, Greek/Serbian speculative fiction writer, culture critic, narrator and podcaster based in London, UK. She is a Hugo and British Fantasy Award-winning Podcast Editor at Strange Horizons magazine, hosts The Write Song Podcast, and writes about SFF arts and theatre for the BSFA. She also organises Spectrum, London’s SFFH critique and community group, while her day job is in theatre. Find her on all social media as @darthjuno.