MADHU KAZA

Born in Andhra Pradesh, India, Madhu H. Kaza is a writer, translator, artist, and educator based in New York City. A translator of Telugu women writers, including Volga and Vimala, her own writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Yale Review, Guernica, EcoTheo Review, Chimurenga, Two Lines and more. She is the editor of Kitchen Table Translation, a volume that explores connections between migration and translation and which features immigrant, diasporic, and poc translators. More recently, she guest-curated a feature on writing from less-translated languages for the Summer/Fall 2022 issue of Gulf Coast, and in 2021 she served as a juror for the National Book Award in translated literature. She works as the Associate Director for Microcollege Programs for the Bard Prison Initiative and also teaches in the MFA program at Columbia University. Her writing will feature in Tilted Axis’s anthology Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation (edited by Dr Kavita Bhanot & Jeremy Tiang).