Dr. Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse

Alana is Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS), and founder of its arts and culture center, Kashkul. A poet, translator, and Kurdish literature scholar, she has translated numerous Kurdish works into English, including Handful of Salt (Kajal Ahmed) and Dictionary of Midnight (Abdulla Pashew). In 2022, she received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship for her translation of Hero Kurda’s I Write Yousif.