Aleshia Jensen Translator

Aleshia Jensen is a French-to-English translator and former bookseller. Her translations include Explosions by Mathieu Poulin, which was a finalist for Canada' 2018 Governor General's Literary Award for translation, Prague by Maude Veilleux, co-translated with Aimee Wall, as well as graphic novels by Julie Delporte, Catherine Ocelot, Axelle Lenoir and Max de Radiguès.

Sadia Messaili was born in Morocco and is a primary school teacher and special needs educator in Montreal. She describes her personal journey as that of "a good immigrant wherever she has lived: Algeria, Croatia, Austria and finally, Montreal, Quebec." Her first book about forced migratory wandering is titled, La route de la dignité.