Sarah Booker

Sarah Booker is a PhD candidate in Hispanic Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in contemporary Latin American narrative and translation studies. She currently teaches Spanish at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. Her research focuses on translation studies, gender and sexuality studies, and 20th-21st century Latin American narrative. Booker has held roles including visiting English lecturer at the Universidad de Sevilla (2017–2018) and translator for major literary works such as Cristina Rivera Garza’s *The Iliac Crest* and *Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country*. She co-founded the Carolina Translation Collective to foster interdisciplinary translation dialogues.

• Educations:
• PhD, UNC Chapel Hill (expected May 2022)
• MA, UNC Chapel Hill (2015)
• BA, UNC Chapel Hill (2011)

Her research explores translation as a geographically and corporeally specific practice, interrogating borders in gender, language, and cultural production. Recent work includes translating Mónica Ojeda’s *Jawbone* (National Book Award finalist, 2022) and co-editing collections on Latin American literary translation. Her awards include a FLAS fellowship for Brazilian Portuguese (2015–2016) and recognition for her contributions to recovering overlooked writers like Amparo Dávila.

Booker’s translations and essays have appeared in *The Paris Review*, *Asymptote*, and *Latin American Literature Today*. She actively engages in editorial work as an assistant for *The Mercurian* and advocates for marginalized voices in literary translation.