Sabrina Nouri was born to an Afghan father and a French mother, Sabrina’s upbringing first in Kabul and then in Paris made her attuned to the challenge of creating gateways between languages and cultures. She holds a Master’s degree in Language Arts and Communications and a BA in Iranian Studies from the Sorbonne University. Sabrina has brought various novels by Atiq Rahimi into French; the first was subsequently translated into 25 languages and made into a film, while the second one was awarded the Amedée-Pichot Prize for best foreign translation. Sabrina’s French translation of Khosraw Mani’s novel Marg wa Berâdarash, “La Mort et son Frère,” won the Inalco Prize for best foreign translation. Most recently, “La Frontière des Oubliés”, Sabrina’s French translation of Aliyeh Ataei’s novel Koorsorkhi, became the first work by an Iranian-Afghan author to be published in Gallimard’s prestigious collection Du Monde Entier. As a consultant for UNTOLD, Sabrina is dedicated to coaching a new generation of translators in Afghanistan and around the world.

Samantha Cosentino was born in Argentina and raised bilingually in California, Samantha Cosentino explores the interior and exterior landscapes of migration, home, and identity in her creative work. Cosentino holds an MFA in Creative Writing and has taught most recently at San Francisco State University. Her poetry and translations have been published by Asymptote, New American Writing, Two Lines Press, and are forthcoming in World Literature Today and elsewhere. Cosentino lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she writes, translates, and works in education.