Jessica Powell

Jessica Powell has published translations by Sergio Missana, Gabriela Wiener, Silvina Ocampo, among others. She was the recipient of a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship in support of her translation of Antonio Benítez Rojo's novel Woman in Battle Dress, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation. Her translation of Wicked Weeds by Pedro Cabiya was named a finalist for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award and made the longlist for the 2017 National Translation Award.