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Presenting the Two Lines Press Winter/Spring 24 catalog, with forthcoming translations from French, Spanish, Dutch, and German.

W/S 24 brings us new work from National Book Award finalist Astrid Roemer and Wolfgang Hilbig, as well as debuts from Switzerland and Spain. Dig in.

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Presenting Soroche, a haunting multimedia performance of Mónica Ojeda’s unflinching short story about a trip to the Andes. This translated live adaptation will illuminate the Brava Theater in San Francisco for one night: June 6, 2024.

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Poetry Inside Out is a cross-cultural world poetry and translation language arts program that combines academic skill-building and social-emotional development and inspires kids to see themselves as readers, writers, thinkers, and world citizens.

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Two Lines Journal

Fiction | May 2024

Married Women

By Mohan Rakesh

Translated from Hindi

By Suniti Madaan

Poetry | Nov 2023

Heart

By Dana Ranga

Translated from German

By Christina Hennemann

Poetry | Nov 2023

From Kabul to Baghdad to Damascus | The Avenue of Dolphins

By Mujib Mehrdad

Translated from Persian

By Sholeh Wolpé

Fiction | Oct 2023

Like Snow

By Laila Stien

Translated from Norwegian

By Olivia Lasky

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Featured Event

Women in Translation: Stories from Croatia and Kazakhstan

May 31, 2024

The Ruby SF | San Francisco, CA

Featuring readings from Los Angeles Review of Books and Yefe Nof Resident Ena Selimović and Mirgul Kali, translator of To Hell With Poets by Kazakh writer Baqytgul Sarmekova. In partnership with the Los Angeles Review of Books and The Ruby SF.

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Featured Blog Posts

Introducing Our 2023-2024 Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows: Lisa Wong

Learn about the minds behind the mission. CAT proudly presents this spotlight on this year’s cohort of Poetry Inside Out Teaching Fellows!

May 17, 2024
An exclusive interview with WOODWORM author Layla Martinez

Karen Gu, Two Lines Press Publicist, interviews all of our authors ahead of their releases. The other day, she sat down with acclaimed author Layla Martinez about her recent release, Woodworm.

May 14, 2024
All things translation—May at CAT

Read about all things translation happening in and around the month of May.

May 8, 2024

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