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Flights of Foundry 2025 Schedule

September 27, 2025

This Sunday I will participate in several programming items for Flights of Foundry, a virtual SF/F convention. Please check it out here as there are many other programming items happening throughout the weekend.

Here’s what I’ll be doing (events listed in East Coast time):

10am: Chill-N-Chat. This is an informal chat with me about my upcoming projects or anything else you wish to ask. It’s limited to 6 participants so you may want to register in advance.

12pm: Interview with 2025 Dream Foundry writing contest winner Victoriia Silina, author of Kharkiv: A War City.

3pm: Building the Sum of Its Parts: The Joy and Challenges of Publishing an Anthology, with Sheree Renee Thomas, Ann LeBlanc, and Dawn Vogel

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Traitor for a Living: The Craft of Literary Translation

January 31, 2021

Last year I was the translator guest of honor at the Flights of Foundry virtual convention, and I delivered this thirty-minute talk on the subject. I’ve given versions of this talk in the past, at the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and elsewhere, but now it’s available online for anyone who might be interested in such. (It’s completely unedited/unebridged, so pardon the virtual dust.)
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Flights of Foundry 2020

May 16, 2020

Reminder: Flights of Foundry is this weekend! There’s lots of great programming throughout, but here are the sessions I will be participating on (in Eastern time):

Saturday

10am Editing as and with a Self-Published Author – panel

11am Secrets of the Short Form – panel

5pm Creatives Crowdfund – panel

Sunday

1pm Considerations for Translation – panel

5pm Traitor for a Living: The Craft of Literary Translation – presentation

7pm Reading

Each session is one hour long. For more details and to join visit here.

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Translation News

April 27, 2020

1) My translation of “The Green Hills of Dimitry Totzkiy” by Eldar Safin is now live (and free to read) at Samovar!

2) I’ll be one of the Guests of Honor at the upcoming Flights of Foundry virtual convention, alongside Liz Gorinsky, Ken Liu, Rachel Cordasco, and many other awesome guests. This convention will take place on May 16-17 and is free to attend (though an optional donation is appreciated by the organizers.)

Virtual conventions are a new thing and we’re all figuring things out so far. Earlier this month I participated on a virtual panel for Heliosphere and that went really well, which makes me very optimistic about this event.

I will also be a guest at AmazingCon, another virtual convention organized by the Amazing Stories team. This one will take place on June 12-14 and I should have more details later on.
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