D. P. Snyder
@dpsnyder.bsky.social
Writer, literary translator (ES>EN). This account is parked and inactive. 🍉🌻 Opinions express here are mine.
I am logging out of BlueSky as of today, August 12, 2026. My account will remain parked and inactive. I am fine, but I see few positive effects and many negative ones from being active on so many platforms. If you wish to contact me, please do so via my website: dpsnyder.us. Take care.
August 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I am logging out of BlueSky as of today, August 12, 2026. My account will remain parked and inactive. I am fine, but I see few positive effects and many negative ones from being active on so many platforms. If you wish to contact me, please do so via my website: dpsnyder.us. Take care.
Trump had a tantrum because Kristen Welker confronted his lies, despite his gutter behavior & insistence on bald-faced lies. Disappointed that @meetthepress.com decided to pretend later that the rain was to blame for his display of presidential incompetence.
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Trump Throws Mic and Runs Off Set
YouTube video by Adam Mockler
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June 7, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Trump had a tantrum because Kristen Welker confronted his lies, despite his gutter behavior & insistence on bald-faced lies. Disappointed that @meetthepress.com decided to pretend later that the rain was to blame for his display of presidential incompetence.
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For me, calls for submission always provoke a tension between my feelings for my biological literary babies and my adopted translation babies. Do other translators feel this way? #translation #literature #literarytranslation
(Photo: The National Library of Medicine)
(Photo: The National Library of Medicine)
June 1, 2026 at 8:33 PM
For me, calls for submission always provoke a tension between my feelings for my biological literary babies and my adopted translation babies. Do other translators feel this way? #translation #literature #literarytranslation
(Photo: The National Library of Medicine)
(Photo: The National Library of Medicine)
Recent disclosures about the use of AI by famous writers—and by famous lit mags and contests that reward it—should radicalize all writers and translators. #Literature #AI #OlgaTokarczuk
May 27, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Recent disclosures about the use of AI by famous writers—and by famous lit mags and contests that reward it—should radicalize all writers and translators. #Literature #AI #OlgaTokarczuk
Writer Katha Politt offers commentary on @tenuredradical.bsky.social's Substack about trying to get AI to write a poem in her style. Required reading, writers! #AI #poetry
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Might Poems Write Themselves As Poems Do?
Guest author Katha Pollitt experimented with an AI version of herself. This is what happened next
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May 26, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Writer Katha Politt offers commentary on @tenuredradical.bsky.social's Substack about trying to get AI to write a poem in her style. Required reading, writers! #AI #poetry
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Happy to have a translation in this issue of The Georgia Review: "Here Stands the House of Dolores del Río" by Mónica Lavín appears in her latest collection, "El lado salvaje" (Tusquets, 2024). Read & buy: www.thegeorgiareview.com/shop/issues/...
#fiction #translation #Acapulco #mexico #shortstories
#fiction #translation #Acapulco #mexico #shortstories
April 3, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Happy to have a translation in this issue of The Georgia Review: "Here Stands the House of Dolores del Río" by Mónica Lavín appears in her latest collection, "El lado salvaje" (Tusquets, 2024). Read & buy: www.thegeorgiareview.com/shop/issues/...
#fiction #translation #Acapulco #mexico #shortstories
#fiction #translation #Acapulco #mexico #shortstories
My genre-nonconforming story "Dissection Manual" is in the new lit mag, Broken Alidade, alongside Mexican master Mónica Lavín's translation to Spanish. Gracias a mi mejor cómplice. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4y2muxyh
#fiction #flashfiction #bodyhorror #literature #writing #sickwoman
#fiction #flashfiction #bodyhorror #literature #writing #sickwoman
April 1, 2026 at 6:41 PM
My genre-nonconforming story "Dissection Manual" is in the new lit mag, Broken Alidade, alongside Mexican master Mónica Lavín's translation to Spanish. Gracias a mi mejor cómplice. Read it here: tinyurl.com/4y2muxyh
#fiction #flashfiction #bodyhorror #literature #writing #sickwoman
#fiction #flashfiction #bodyhorror #literature #writing #sickwoman
@tacobellquarterly.org It was nice meeting you in the cola at @awpwriter.org 2026, M.M. Carrigan. #AWP2026 #Baltimore
March 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
@tacobellquarterly.org It was nice meeting you in the cola at @awpwriter.org 2026, M.M. Carrigan. #AWP2026 #Baltimore
My translation of Mexican writer Teresa Icaza's haunting story, "La última encomienda" / The Last Assignment, is live at CAGIBI. This collection of eight jewel-like stories is #seekingapublisher. #Mexico #ShortStories #literature #ghosts
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The Last Assignment // La última encomienda - Cagibi
by Teresa Icaza, trans. D. P. Snyder
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March 4, 2026 at 3:10 AM
My translation of Mexican writer Teresa Icaza's haunting story, "La última encomienda" / The Last Assignment, is live at CAGIBI. This collection of eight jewel-like stories is #seekingapublisher. #Mexico #ShortStories #literature #ghosts
tinyurl.com/yrjhzu89
tinyurl.com/yrjhzu89
“My name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active-duty member of the United States Air Force. And I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest...
February 26, 2026 at 12:19 PM
“My name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active-duty member of the United States Air Force. And I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest...
Today's note on my Substack: "Solidarity and mindful behavior within our community could put paid to many of these exploitative publishers, retreat directors, and other writer-facing organizations." #WritingCommunity, what do you think?
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Writers: Co-dependent no more!
Highlighting Beck Tuch's excellent Valentine's Day salvo in Lit Mag News
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February 14, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Today's note on my Substack: "Solidarity and mindful behavior within our community could put paid to many of these exploitative publishers, retreat directors, and other writer-facing organizations." #WritingCommunity, what do you think?
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This account will be inactive for a while as its author spends her time on other things. I wish you peace and happiness in 2026. You can always reach out to me via my website: www.dpsnyder.us.
See you down the road!
See you down the road!
January 1, 2026 at 5:53 PM
This account will be inactive for a while as its author spends her time on other things. I wish you peace and happiness in 2026. You can always reach out to me via my website: www.dpsnyder.us.
See you down the road!
See you down the road!
Aloka the Peace Dog wishes everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas. #WalkForPeace
December 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Aloka the Peace Dog wishes everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas. #WalkForPeace
Thanks to @pulpliterature.bsky.social for including my story "Smile" in their Winter anthology (no. 49) to be launched in early 2026. (Painting: Mahnal)
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Thanks to @pulpliterature.bsky.social for including my story "Smile" in their Winter anthology (no. 49) to be launched in early 2026. (Painting: Mahnal)
"We are not in the era of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, robots (or reboots), WhatsApps, Zooms, Facebooks, or anything of the kind. We are in the age of utter sloth." — Angelina Muñiz-Huberman #AI #Mexico #literature
“It will be the kingdom of immobility. And the empire of beloved sloth.”
Enjoy this short essay by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, translated by D. P. Snyder, in our November issue’s “World Lit in the Age of AI” cover feature.
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Enjoy this short essay by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, translated by D. P. Snyder, in our November issue’s “World Lit in the Age of AI” cover feature.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"We are not in the era of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, robots (or reboots), WhatsApps, Zooms, Facebooks, or anything of the kind. We are in the age of utter sloth." — Angelina Muñiz-Huberman #AI #Mexico #literature
“To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support dominations… and the world of domination is always a world without love.” — bell hooks
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support dominations… and the world of domination is always a world without love.” — bell hooks
Thanks @tr. review of translations at @blacklawrence.bsky.social for publishing this bone-chilling story from Angélica Gorodischer's collection "Las nenas" [Girls]. This translation is the fruit of a collaboration between me and the fabulous @amaliag.bsky.social.
Read: tinyurl.com/vpbtrnvn
Read: tinyurl.com/vpbtrnvn
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Thanks @tr. review of translations at @blacklawrence.bsky.social for publishing this bone-chilling story from Angélica Gorodischer's collection "Las nenas" [Girls]. This translation is the fruit of a collaboration between me and the fabulous @amaliag.bsky.social.
Read: tinyurl.com/vpbtrnvn
Read: tinyurl.com/vpbtrnvn
If I were in New York City, I would totally be at this event. Go to the website at the CUNY Graduate Center to register. It's next Friday, November 14th. Huge props to the poster designer!
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #literature #film
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #literature #film
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If I were in New York City, I would totally be at this event. Go to the website at the CUNY Graduate Center to register. It's next Friday, November 14th. Huge props to the poster designer!
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #literature #film
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #literature #film
Thanks to @worldlittoday.bsky.social for publishing my essay, "Notes on #AI: The Master's Tool," in the November issue. Pick up the issue for more on the most important issue facing #literature and #translation today.
“If we reassign our role as language creators to AI, we will lose what makes us human.”
D. P. Snyder shares her Notes on AI, including a call to action, in our November issue.
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D. P. Snyder shares her Notes on AI, including a call to action, in our November issue.
@dpsnyder.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Thanks to @worldlittoday.bsky.social for publishing my essay, "Notes on #AI: The Master's Tool," in the November issue. Pick up the issue for more on the most important issue facing #literature and #translation today.
I join the conversation about AI and World Literature in @worldlittoday.bsky.social's latest issue with my essay "AI: The Master's Tool" and my translation of Angelina Muñiz-Huberman's text "Divertimento: Artificial Nonense."
Table of contents here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/november
Table of contents here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/november
November 2025
In its November 2025 issue, World Literature Today showcases World Lit in the Age of AI with striking cover art by Sasha Stiles and an essay about her ongoing poem-in-residence project at MoMA. The re...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I join the conversation about AI and World Literature in @worldlittoday.bsky.social's latest issue with my essay "AI: The Master's Tool" and my translation of Angelina Muñiz-Huberman's text "Divertimento: Artificial Nonense."
Table of contents here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/november
Table of contents here: worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/november
"Choose Your Prayers Wisely": Today on Substack, I meditate on what it means for millions to recite a bad #translation of the Lord's Prayer for 414 years. #Palestine #fascism #sin #religion #Gaza
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In Times of Genocide, Choose Your Prayers Wisely
In times of fascism, perhaps it's time to stop reciting a Lord's Prayer that's an inaccurate translation.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"Choose Your Prayers Wisely": Today on Substack, I meditate on what it means for millions to recite a bad #translation of the Lord's Prayer for 414 years. #Palestine #fascism #sin #religion #Gaza
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#NoKings in @hillsboroughnc.gov. I am so proud of my neighbors who flooded our Main Street with protest today. Patriots!
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dpsnyder_writer on Instagram: "TURN UP THE VOLUME!!!We the people say NO.No Kings.No Tiny-fingered Tyrants.No CrueltyNo ViolenceNo ICENo Concentration CampsNo Fam…"
TURN UP THE VOLUME!!!We the people say NO.No Kings.No Tiny-fingered Tyrants.No CrueltyNo ViolenceNo ICENo Concentration CampsNo Family SeparationNo ImpunityNo ImmunityNo Taxation Without Representation#nokingsprotest #nokings #NorthCarolina #protest (Footage: Chris Kincade)
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October 19, 2025 at 3:29 AM
#NoKings in @hillsboroughnc.gov. I am so proud of my neighbors who flooded our Main Street with protest today. Patriots!
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See you on the streets tomorrow, America. We are the last line of defense between this crew of fascists and the dismantling of our nation. DO NOT FAIL YOUR COUNTRY NOW!
#NoKings. Ever.
#NoKings. Ever.
October 18, 2025 at 12:44 AM
See you on the streets tomorrow, America. We are the last line of defense between this crew of fascists and the dismantling of our nation. DO NOT FAIL YOUR COUNTRY NOW!
#NoKings. Ever.
#NoKings. Ever.
There is no collective word for a group of #feminists, so I propose a Fury of Feminists. To dismantle the oppressive pillar of #patriarchy, it will require a massive surge of anger expressed with pinpoint accuracy, targeting our rage where it can have the most effect—the Jasmine Crockett approach.
October 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
There is no collective word for a group of #feminists, so I propose a Fury of Feminists. To dismantle the oppressive pillar of #patriarchy, it will require a massive surge of anger expressed with pinpoint accuracy, targeting our rage where it can have the most effect—the Jasmine Crockett approach.
World War III has already begun, but, predictably, it looks nothing like the World Wars of the past. This time, it's not governments declaring war against each other; rather, it's ordinary people rising up against their governments the world over. #WeAreAmericaMarch #resist www.weareamericamarch.com
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September 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
World War III has already begun, but, predictably, it looks nothing like the World Wars of the past. This time, it's not governments declaring war against each other; rather, it's ordinary people rising up against their governments the world over. #WeAreAmericaMarch #resist www.weareamericamarch.com