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May Huang

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May Huang

May Huang is a writer and translator from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Her translations of Chinese literature have appeared or are forthcoming in InTranslation, World Literature Today, Circumference, Asymptote, and elsewhere. She graduated from the University of Chicago with honors in English and Comparative Literature in 2019. She was a mentee in ALTA’s 2020 Emerging Translators Mentorship Program and received an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation.

Twitter: @mayhuangwrites

Website: mayhuang.com

Articles by May Huang

Translating Hong Kong and Taiwan: A Conversation between May Huang and Jenna Tang
By May Huang & Jenna Tang
In this interview, translators Jenna Tang and May Huang discuss their experiences translating contemporary literature in Chinese from Taiwan and Hong Kong. Their conversation touches on the diversity…
On Sestinas and Literary Translation
By May Huang
I encountered my first sestina in college, through a creative writing workshop centered on poetic form. For homework, we read the canonical examples, such as Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sestina”…