A writer and translator of French and Italian, Katie Shireen Assef grew up in Minnesota and lives in Marseille. Her translation of Valérie Mréjen’s novel Black Forest (Deep Vellum, 2019) was a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year. Assef’s short translations and writing have appeared in publications such as 3:AM Magazine, Blue Arrangements, Asymptote, The Dial, SARKA Journal, and elsewhere.
Cinema
Spring 2025
With Sans Soleil
The Kenyon Review · “With Sans Soleil” by Bertrand Schafer translated by Katie Shireen Assef and Claire Foster It begins with an astonishing “image of happiness.” Three children on a […]