2026 Conference Schedule

International writers in the US work in a liminal space between at least two cultures and languages even if they write in English. They face a question: How to represent, or “translate,” the culture that’s familiar to them but not to most of their readers? What does it mean to be a writer from an “alien” culture in an insular society? The panelists, with backgrounds rife with experiences of colonialism, war, and migration, will discuss how existing in the interstices has shaped their fiction.