I am very late in posting this spot on NPR featuring the QUILL reading I was part of last week. I don’t appear in the spot, but there is mention of the QUILL Translation Award, a $500 award to a Queens-based translator in support of a work in progress. I will post the full details soon, but if you know a translator who lives in Queens, NYC and who is working on either a book-length translation of poetry or a novella, tell them to keep their eyes open, either on this website or the website of the Queens Council on the Arts.
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