Aaron Robertson is a writer, translator, and editor. His translation of Igiaba Scego’s novel Beyond Babylon (Two Lines Press, 2019) was shortlisted for multiple awards, including the PEN Translation Prize and the National Translation Award. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Detroit Metro Times, The Nation, Foreign Policy, n+1, and more. His first book, a history of African American utopianism, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.