EMMA LLOYD is a translator and writer working across genres—from poetry to narrative to film subtitles. Her ongoing translation of Pedro Lemebel’s De perlas y cicatrices (Of Pearls and Scars) won a 2019 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant. She is the translator of Julieta Vittore Dutto’s debut poetry collection, Un lugar interminable (An Endless Place) (2022), as well as subtitles for Tatiana Huezo’s Prayers for the Stolen (2021) and Mattis Appelqvist Dalton and Matteo Robert Morales’s The Time of the Fireflies (2022). She has a master’s from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York and is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Alongside her translation work, Emma works at Safe Passage Project, an immigration justice organization.
