Jay Boss Rubin
@jaybossrubin.bsky.social
Literary translator from Swahili
Out now: ROSA MISTIKA by Euphrase Kezilahabi (Yale University Press)
Coming 12/1, THE WITNESS OF NINA MVUNGI AND OTHER STORIES by Esther Karin Mngodo (Hanging Loose Press)
Pia: Managing Editor, Portland Tennis Courterly
Out now: ROSA MISTIKA by Euphrase Kezilahabi (Yale University Press)
Coming 12/1, THE WITNESS OF NINA MVUNGI AND OTHER STORIES by Esther Karin Mngodo (Hanging Loose Press)
Pia: Managing Editor, Portland Tennis Courterly
Tonight in Albany, NY! I'll be reading and in conversation with Albany translator Shaina Brassard.
September 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Tonight in Albany, NY! I'll be reading and in conversation with Albany translator Shaina Brassard.
Two weeks from today @ Dove & Hudson in Albany, NY: "Translator Reading: Literature from Tanzania & Bolivia." I'll be reading from ROSA MISTIKA, by Euphrase Kezilahabi, alongside Capital Region translator Shaina Brassard, who'll be reading from her translations of Rodrigo Urquiola Flores's stories.
August 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Two weeks from today @ Dove & Hudson in Albany, NY: "Translator Reading: Literature from Tanzania & Bolivia." I'll be reading from ROSA MISTIKA, by Euphrase Kezilahabi, alongside Capital Region translator Shaina Brassard, who'll be reading from her translations of Rodrigo Urquiola Flores's stories.
Excited to share my latest translation, "Without Sun," by the inimitable Esther Karin Mngodo (@koimolove.bsky.social), out now in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social. Read it for free: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl.... Purchase the print edition, w/ cover art by John Waters (!): hopkinsreview.com/shop/p/volum...
August 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Excited to share my latest translation, "Without Sun," by the inimitable Esther Karin Mngodo (@koimolove.bsky.social), out now in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social. Read it for free: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl.... Purchase the print edition, w/ cover art by John Waters (!): hopkinsreview.com/shop/p/volum...