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, and Terrazzo Mag.

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

Recently, in translation

Excerpt from Pierric Bailly’s The Woodsman, in Asymptote

Excerpts by Arno Calleja in SARKA and Blue Arrangements

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

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

Selected poems by Arno Calleja, in La Piccioletta Barca

Letters by Scholastique Mukasonga and Max Lobe, 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