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Allison deFreese

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Member (1 Year)
First name
Allison
Last name
deFreese
Public Photo
State
Oregon
ATA Membership Type
  • Associate Member
Services Provided
  • Translation
  • Editing/Proofreading
  • Transcription
  • Subtitling
  • Teaching/Training/Consulting
  • Others (Please describe below)
Other Services Provided
Allison A. deFreese (she/her) is a poet, literary translator, and National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. Her work appears in Crazyhorse (now swamp pink), Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, Hunger Mountain, and New England Review. She is winner of Southeast Review's 2021 The World's Best Short-Short Story Contest and has two poetry chapbooks forthcoming this November 2022, The Night with James Dean and Other Prose Poems (winner of Cathexis Northwest Press's 2022 chapbook contest) and Nurdles and Other Poems.
Her recent literary translations include Víctor Hugo Manzanila's Entrepreneur, María Negroni’s Elegy for Joseph Cornell (Dublin: Dalkey Archive Press, 2020), José Moreno Hernández’s Soaring to New Heights: The Memoir of a Child Migrant Farmworker Who Became a NASA Astronaut (Renuevo, 2020), Víctor Hugo Manzanilla's Entrepreneur ,and Verónica González Arredondo’s I Am Not That Body (Montreal: Pub House Books, 2020), as well as González Arredondo’s book Green Fires of the Spirits (the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla's University Press, Libros BUAP, Mexico, 2022).
 

LANGUAGE PAIRS

Translation (Written) from:
  • English
  • Spanish
Translation (Written) into:
  • English
  • Spanish
 

CERTIFICATION

Other Certifications not listed above
*Graduate Certificate in Spanish Translation, University of Texas at Brownsville

*Superior-level Spanish Proficiency Certification, ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages)
 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Education
MA in Spanish Interpreting and Translation (MAIT), University of Texas at Brownsville. Graduate coursework including: Audiovisual Translation, Documentary Explorations, Judicial Translation, Literary Translation (Spanish), Screenwriting Seminar (Film), Technology in the Foreign Language Classroom, Translation Technologies

*MFA, Writing, University of Texas at Austin
*MA, English, University of Texas at Austin
Other Information
*Over two years teaching and living in Mexico
*Two years living in Bolivia and South America (bilingual journalist and translator, The Bolivian Times in collaboration with the AP South America Bureau)
*One year living and working in Japan


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