Odelia Lu

Creative writer | translator | aspiring narrative designer | editor | MFA graduate at Columbia University

[Odelia Lu @odelia_lu]

and an inexhaustible source of delight. I can't wait to meet everyone at the ALTA conference and continue to learn about one of the most beautiful pursuits in the realm of literature from minds that are compassionate, intelligent, and curious. Cheers! 🥳

[Odelia Lu @odelia_lu]

I am overwhelmingly thrilled and deeply honored to have been selected as one of the 2023 ALTA Travel Fellows, alongside four extraordinary fellows who shine ever so brightly. This is a dream come true, and I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to the entire committee...

[American Literary Translators Association @LitTranslate]

🎉ALTA is delighted to announce the 2023 ALTA Travel Fellows!

Congratulations to these 5 outstanding emerging translators: @mayadamayadamay, Rachel Landau, @odelia_lu, @dawidmobolaji, and Allana Noyes! 

See the full announcement here: https://t.co/tjn5E32Zi4

[Odelia Lu @odelia_lu]

... for recognizing both my work and my commitment. A thousand thanks to the judges for their invaluable time and dedication in selecting the recipients. My love also goes to all those who persistently make translation a meaningful conversation, an act of solidarity...

[Leslie Jamison @lsjamison]

✨tenure✨

[Odelia Lu @odelia_lu]

“What is it about this country that makes it so that to hold something as our own is to have won?” - Kat Chow, from Seeing Ghosts

[Odelia Lu @odelia_lu]

The launch of Queer Time: A Special Notebook of Taiwanese Tongzhi Literature / 酷兒時間：台灣同志文學 @aaww is Monday, July 26 at 7pm. It's been a great pleasure for me to translate Lin Hsin-hui's short story “Peeling Off." Come and hear an excerpt of it!
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[Odelia Lu @odelia_lu]

Submit your poetry translations to this wonderful magazine!! https://t.co/cX8U7gPdHy is a team of passionate, lovely people who advocate for the unknown, the surprising, and the underrepresented ❤️

[Non.Plus Lit @NonPlusLit]

Hi everyone—while we’re still working through issue 3, we have an exciting update. We’re now looking for creative works of poetry in English translation for our next issue!! Submissions open June 15th! Info in the graphic below, and at https://t.co/VDb0RtPuPW

[Sant Jordi NYC @stjordinyc]

NOW ON: What can we learn from dialogues with other translators of the same language? In this discussion, translators @Kevkipedia and @odelia_lu will read and discuss their differing approaches to translating ancient and contemporary Chinese poetry.

[Kevin Wang @Kevkipedia]

@odelia_lu and I will be reading our translations of Chinese poems (by Li Qingzhao and Chen Nianxi) and today at 3pm EST for @SantJordiNYC ! Hop in for a discussion & live chat: https://t.co/Eljq9mqnb7

[Columbia Journal @ColumbiaJournal]

ICYMI, congratulations to our 2020 Winter Contest winners and runners-up! We are so excited about these artists and thanks to everyone who submitted!

*We'd like to correct a previous version of this graphic; our winner in Translation is K. Gabriela D'Addario, @ga8rie1a !

[Columbia Journal @ColumbiaJournal]

Our 2020 Winter Contest is *EXTENDED* through Dec. 31st! Send us your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation! Winners will be published in Issue 59 and win $500 cash. $15 entry fee. Check out our fabulous judges and full submission guidelines here!

https://t.co/HDPDGrsvwV

[Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @CongressmanRaja]

At a time when anti-Asian hate crimes and bias are the worst we've witnessed in decades, the last thing we need is a United States Senator engaging in generalizations so racist and ignorant they sound like they could have been pulled from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

[Odelia Lu @odelia_lu]

The entry fee for translation submissions is waived to support and promote more translated works!! @sawakonakayasu will be our judge 🙌 Please spread the word, and let’s make the first Columbia Journal translation winter contest absolutely fun and amazing!! 💛

[Columbia Journal @ColumbiaJournal]

The 2020 Winter Contest is OPEN for submissions in poetry, nonfiction, fiction, and translation! Winners will be published in Issue 59 and win $500 cash. There is a $15 entry fee.

Full submission guidelines can be found here: https://t.co/wAzPghIy20

[Odelia Lu @odelia_lu]

So glad that I watched Vicious before GOT... would have been traumatized by Ramsay otherwise 😂

[Odelia Lu @odelia_lu]

My first review is published in collaboration with Brittany Nguyen on @sawakonakayasu 's SOME GIRLS WALK INTO THE COUNTRY THEY ARE FROM. It's a fun little heart-to-heart exchange about identities, cultures, translations, and so much more. Check it out! https://t.co/pPCQuPyhua

[Allegra Harpootlian @ally_harp]

A teenage TikTok-er pointed out that there were no ASL interpreters at the debate last night, which means ~600,000 deaf Americans were not afforded the chance to participate in their democracy. I can't stop thinking about it. How can that STILL be an oversight in 2020?

[Elliot Williams @elliotcwilliams]

Unsolicited opinion from a black man: everything that's wrong with race in America is three white men starting a conversation "about race" and having it immediately degenerate into an argument about "law and order."