Alane Salierno Mason is a vice president and executive editor at the independent, employee-owned W.W. Read More Norton & Company—where over the past thirty years, she has acquired and edited over 300 books of fiction and nonfiction, including acclaimed work by Diane Ackerman, Jessica Bruder, Andre Dubus III, Stephen Greenblatt, Paul Harding, Dara Horn, Randall Kenan, Maggie Nelson, Jeff Sharlet, Vauhini Vara, and many others. She has published reviews and essays in Vanity Fair, the Boston Review, the New York Times, the Daily News, Commonweal, and the Baltimore Sun, and translated Elio Vittorini’s Conversations in Sicily (a New Directions Classic).    She is the founder and president of WordsWithoutBorders.org, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the translation, publication, and promotion of international literature.  For her work with Words Without Borders she was named a Distinguished Alumna of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “for outstanding contributions to humanity in the field of world literature” and given a Community Service Award as an alumna of the Hotchkiss School.  In 2014, she was awarded the first ever “Editorial Achievement Award” from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, “for broadening the world of American letters to include global and diasporic narratives.”