Joyce Zonana

Joyce Zonana was awarded an ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship for her translation of Henri Bosco’s Malicroix, forthcoming from New York Review Books. Her memoir, Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile’s Journey, appeared in 2008 (Feminist Press). An English professor at CUNY until just recently, she has published scholarly and personal essays in Hudson Review, Signs, Meridians, and Studies in American Jewish Literature, along with online journals Feminism and Religion, NOLA Diaspora, and Sephardic Horizons. Joyce lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she now devotes herself to literary translation.