Mirgul Kali is a Kazakh-born translator based in the US. Her translations of short fiction by Kazakh writers have been published in Tupelo Quarterly, Electric Literature, Exchanges, The Massachusetts Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of the 2018 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship and a 2022 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant. She holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow.

She is the translator of To Hell with Poets.