Jennifer Feeley

Happy book birthday to 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩! 📚🎂

Thank you to our fabulous team at @riverheadbooks.bsky.social & especially our editor extraordinaire @hannzhangg.bsky.social for giving this book a home in English.

Available today in the US wherever books are sold.

Congratulations to all the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship program mentees! 🎉 I’m delighted to serve as the HK Poetry mentor for the talented Allie Xiang on her translations of poems by Damian Cheung 小西. Please check out all the mentees’ bios! ✨

Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social for sharing an excerpt of Everyday Movement, coming out from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social tomorrow February 10 ✨

Excited to share that my translation of Wong Yi's 黃怡 "Overseas Bride" has been selected for BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026. This is a timely story about the losses involved in immigration, esp. language, & is a love letter to Cantonese. Congrats to all the translators & thank you to the editors!

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

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The powerful, award-winning novel from Gigi L. Leung is coming soon in English 🥀

Follow the lives of two women and their communities as democracy starts to crumble in Hong Kong. Translated by @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social, EVERYDAY MOVEMENT arrives Feb 10: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774553...

Cover of advance proofs of the novel Everyday Movement by Gigi L. Leung, translated by Jennifer Feeley. The cover image is of purplish-pink flowers burning.

Back cover of Everyday Movement that gives a brief description of the book, short blurbs, and biographies of the author and translator.

The author Gigi Leung's letter to English readers explaining the background of writing the book.

Table of contents for Everyday Movement. The book is divided into three parts. Part One: New Town Vendetta Train Life During Wartime Sai Mui, Baby Girl Terrain of Skin and Flesh Part Two: Panda Part Three: The Final Class Snoopy Friends The Outside World Be a Girlfriend

Just received my advance copy of 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 by Gigi L. Leung 梁莉姿 (tr. by me), a powerful novel about the everyday lives of ordinary people during the 2019 Hong Kong protests, out from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social on Feb. 10, 2026. Thank you @ohanzhang.bsky.social for your brilliant editing!

Voice memo recordings for the Xi Xi Space

Voice memo recordings for the Xi Xi Space

Deleted voice memo recordings for the Xi Xi Space, which reveal the limitations of my work as a voice actor

Having spent the past couple days recording the English audio guide for the Xi Xi Space, I have a newfound respect for voice actors & people who record audiobooks.

My shortcomings as a voice actor aside, I’m very excited that the Space will open next month & that I can be there for its launch ✨

I'm sorry to hear this, Anton. Sending a gentle hug your way. Thank you for bringing her words to English readers.

Happy birthday!🎉🎂 May you have a beautiful day.

ALTA A L T A

📣 Meet the mentors for the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program! buff.ly/uQyIkTL

The program allows an emerging translator to establish and develop a close working relationship with an experienced translator on a literary translation project chosen by the emerging translator.

was away from this side of social media for a while but so glad to learn from @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social her process of translating and editing

Apply to translate Prose from Hong Kong with the fabulous @jacqlyy.bsky.social & Poetry from HK with me! 🇭🇰

📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open!

The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator.

Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69

I'm happy to share that my English translation of Gigi Leung Lee-chi's 梁莉姿 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 《日常運動》 is coming out from Riverhead Books February 2026. Its power & relevance resonate extend far beyond Hong Kong. Thank you @ohanzhang.bsky.social for your support & careful edits! 香港加油！🇭🇰

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Et dans l'épisode, une lecture d'un poème de cette immense autrice qu'est Xi Xi, tiré du hors-série de Jentayu dédié à la littérature hongkongaise contemporaine ✨💫

Attn: translators! Two Lines Press has two open calls for submission right now, both due July 6th!

NYC: Join us on Wednesday, June, 4 at 7PM at Yu and Me Books for the final U.S. stop of the MENDING BODIES book tour with author Hon Lai Chu, translator @jacqlyy.bsky.social‬, and writer/translator Bonnie Chau. More at: www.yuandmebooks.com/products/boo...

Someone just asked me about getting started as a literary translator and I realized I already have kind of a starter pack of content to help emerging translators.

First, how to get rights to a book you want to translate:

TikTok: vt.tiktok.com/ZSkN9B67w/

Reel: www.instagram.com/reel/CtYkiwh...

AI Nightmares: Rise of the Dead Souls | Los Angeles Review of Books Michael Berry sees warning signs of the creep of AI into education and translation work.

"What if, in our barter with AI, 'the pound of flesh' we barter turns out to be our brain?" @bairuiwen.bsky.social sees warning signs of the creep of AI into education and translation work. lareviewofbooks.org/article/ai-n...

I'm so sorry for your loss. Losing a mother is so painful. Sending you love. 🫂💖

A book I’m translating has a chapter named after this song & it’s very timely

Open Letter Books, Deep Vellum, The Paris Review… this is a full-on attack on literary publishing.

The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: "Literature is how we create the world we want to live in. But that world is threatened by the administration's cuts to the NEA and the rich arts landscape it once supported. And the work we do to uplift bold, innovative global writing is newly at risk."

The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: "Like many other arts organizations across the country, we learned on Friday night that our 2025 NEA grant has been terminated because our work “no longer aligns” with the administration’s priorities. Moving forward, we cannot rely on funding that has sustained our magazine and our programs for well over a decade. Yet despite these challenges, we stand firm in our mission to amplify global literary voices and invite readers to explore a wider world through literature."

The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: "If you, like us, believe in the power of global stories, here’s what you can do in this destabilizing moment to support WWB and our vision of literature that embraces global interconnectedness:"

A set of green text boxes organized above the social media logos for Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn, as well as a black button with white text reading "wordswithoutborders.org" and "wwb-campus.org". Two images, one of a teacher instructing students in a classroom and one of a selfie of smiling folks at a WWB event, are interspersed with the text boxes. The boxes contain calls-to-action to support WWB, including to donate, to subscribe to newsletters, to joine WWB Campus for free, to meet us at our free public events, and to follow us on social media and share our posts.

For most of our existence, WWB has received funding from the NEA. Now, like many others, we must chart a path forward without it. But our readers still deserve access to dazzling global writing. Please donate or share our work to support our mission of bringing the world close through literature.

Hong Kong literature with an English voice | The Hong Konger Translator Jennifer Feeley works to retain the distinctive character and tone of the Chinese authors she interprets.

Thank you @jennywcreative.bsky.social for chatting with me about literary translation & HK lit 💖
hongkonger.world/2025/04/21/h...

I was thinking how much harder it is when the author isn’t alive!

I spent probably an hour last night trying to decipher a Chinese phrase that just wasn't making sense, only to learn from the author that it was simply a typo. 🙈 Presumably this has happened to other literary translators too?

👇 Fascinating set of titles and authors and talented translators (eg @jeremytiang.bsky.social & @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ) in the mix here for this prize cc @wwborders.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social

So many of my favorite translators & books are on this list ❤️❤️❤️