Shelley Fairweather-Vega Translator & Editor

Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek novelist and poet who lives in exile in London. He is a journalist and project manager with the BBC World Service. A prolific writer of poetry and prose, Ismailov has been published in Uzbek, Russian, French, German, Turkish, English, and other languages. He is the author of many novels, including The Railway and The Underground.

Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a freelance translator in Seattle, Washington. She translates several novels, poetry, and short stories for children and adults.