I'm Not Going Anywhere

Rumena Bužarovska is a fiction writer and literary translator from Skopje, North Macedonia. Bužarovska’s short stories have been translated into several languages. “Waves” and “Lily” appeared in Best European Fiction 2016 and Contemporary Macedonian Fiction respectively, both published by Dalkey Archive Press. My HuHer most recent collection My Husband was published by Dalkey in 2020. Bužarovska teaches literature at the State University in Skopje.

Steve Bradbury lived for many years in Taiwan, where he was Associate Professor of English at National Central University and founding editor of Full Tilt: a journal of East-Asia poetry, translation and the arts. A long-standing member of the American Literary Translators Association, he is a recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, and two Henry Luce Foundation Chinese Poetry & Translation Fellowships. He has published hundreds of translations in over fifty journals and anthologies and written extensively on the subject of Chinese poetry in translation. His most recent book-length translation, Hsia Yü's Salsa (Zephyr Press, 2014), was short-listed for the Lucien Stryk Prize. His previous collection, a chapbook of the poetry of Ye Mimi entitled His Days Go by the Way Her Years (Anomalous Press 2013), was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award.