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Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
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Congratulations to @jacqlyy.bsky.social and Hon Lai Chu! MENDING BODIES is on the longlist for ALTA's National Translation Award in Prose! 🪡🧵
September 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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This collection is a study in the infinite possibilities of fiction. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/s... @twolinespress.com @alicestephens.bsky.social #swell #sonbomi #booksintranslation #korean #southkorea #shortstories #booksky #bookreview
Swell: Stories | Washington Independent Review of Books
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September 2, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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Happy happy publication day to SPLENDOR: Trans Poets! 🪼

“One hundred legs in one hundred slippers. The jellyfish guides you / to a transparent bedroom: Allow me to dream your dream for you. / You shake your head: I can do this myself.”—from Kim Sono’s “Taming Flesh” translated by Eunice Lee 🪼
September 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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📚🖊️ There’s a woman who carries her tiny husband around in a box. There’s a storm that is a metaphor for death and the world beyond and the ghosts stuck in between. These stories all take a strange turn.

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Unusual Fragments – Old Paper & Cats, Reviews by S. Hargrave
Unusual Fragments features five stories from Japanese writers you may have heard of but are also off the beaten path themselves.
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August 31, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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#SealeyChallenge 30/31

Splendor: Trans Poets by 5 poets, & translators, & Intro by @rckylrnts.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️🤍

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@catranslation.org Calico series #14 💜

I got this gorgeous brand new book (plus goodies! See Image 4) in the mail b/c …
Book sits on blue & white patterned cloth (my pillow case). Cover image is a square photograph of two iridescent jellyfish (white/translucent, pink, & pale blue) on black: 1 heading up & 1 heading down. White text in a central black circle over the space between the 2 jellies reads: TRANS POETS The margins around the photo are ombré pink-to-purple, left to right. In the larger margin below the photo, inside a black-line-bordered box, in black text: SPLENDOR A paragraph shown: The book you hold in your hands participates in this shift of the light, even if it does not exclusively spell out the mechanics of that change or remain solely & expensively interested in it. These poets assume a fuller breadth. Assembled here, these poets represent our Globe, one undergoing a series of ongoing revolutions not just in identity, but in Ways of Being—of Being with Each Other; that is, in our relations and, always, in power. Those of us Trans Beings, or our allies, understand the exponential rate of Time's arrow, and welcome the world steadily arriving by way of that Time, and we are in love with it. You get the feeling reading these poems that each poet adores their glorious change, whether that change is seen on the surface or sits more privately, nestled deep in the Soul's core. These poems assert we have always been who we are. Those of us Trans Beings recognize the world that is today, as if another bolt of lightning has in fact arrived, straight from God, forcing us all to be whole, to be intact and complete. So that we can be our own soulmates. [added blue text] End of the introduction "On (Trans) Ways of Being" by Rickey Laurentiis in Splendor: Trans Poets (p 19) Poem on p 75 of Splendor: Trans Poets shown. An almost-see-through sticker on the window It looks like stained glass breaks the light the same way Take a big sip of water Tilt your head from side to side It really feels like the ocean in your mouth The same cool weight as holding movement between your hands [Added blue text] From The Ocean in Your Mouth by Luka Holmegaard, translated from Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russel Swag collection shown. The main prize is a canvas tote bag: it’s emblazoned with a black, white, & orange stylized San Francisco, with about 16 cats, most with speech bubbles saying “meow” in diverse languages 😻 On & around the bag are: a Two Lines Press (fluorescent green) bookmark & (orange) sticker, a (yellow) TBW Books matchbook that says “Do your part… BUY MORE BOOKS!!!! say yes to truth and NO to COWARD SCUM,” a pink sticker reading (in white & black) READ TRANS POETS, an orange coozy stating “[in white] I’m looking at the sea, [in black] it’s all I do.” & a sliver of a postcard from The Center for the Art of Translation featuring Lauren Tamaki’s illustration. Scenes of someone reading in City Lights (over the word “Booksellers”), 2 people walking toward the Chinatown gate, & a dressed up person singing under flowers (with “Yerba Buena) are visible.
September 1, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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#SFinTranslation Publisher Spotlight:

@twolinespress.com has published more than a dozen excellent works of SFT from a wide variety of languages:

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August 30, 2026 at 9:41 PM
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Join us next month for an online conversation about BLOOD IS DRIPPING ONTO THE COURTYARD with author Elvira Navarro in conversation with Melissa Lozada-Oliva, presented by the International Library! 🩸 Find registration and event details here: www.catranslation.org/event/the-in...
August 28, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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For those in the San Francisco area
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Bay Area! Join us for a hometown celebration of SPLENDOR: Trans Poets at Green Apple Books on the Park on Thursday, September 17th! Hope to see you there👋🪼 RSVP for this free event and find all the details here: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
August 28, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Bay Area! Join us for a hometown celebration of SPLENDOR: Trans Poets at Green Apple Books on the Park on Thursday, September 17th! Hope to see you there👋🪼 RSVP for this free event and find all the details here: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...
August 27, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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#NowReading
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#TransPoets
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Clockwise, starting in upper left corner: Letter from the marketing manager of Two Lines Press; postcard of a rendering of San Francisco; Read Trans Poets sticker; a pink book -- TRANS POETS in white letters on top of a picture of two sea creatures and underneath the title SPLENDOR; an orange koozie depicting a white cat with an arched back.
August 21, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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📣 FYI! 📣
August 25, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Join us in celebrating the release of Splendor: Trans Poets, forthcoming on September 1! We invited bookstores across the US and internationally to organize creative readings and events featuring trans and nonbinary poets.
August 18, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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Finished this last night & loved its style, quirkiness, projection, lonely characters, & empathy for even terrible people (that is, all of us).

W/o my @twolinespress.com membership, I wouldn't know this writer. Ordered 2 more of her books from them before I'd even finished this collection.
And How Have *You* Been? Stories Maria Judite De Carvalho Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Pinkish background, with white and black text and the cutout of a man and woman seen from the back, arm in arm, in the foreground. A bright green bookmark with the cutout silhouette of a bristling cat emerges from the top of the book.
August 15, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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#NowReading

#WITMonth

Two stories in and loving it.

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Longlisted for the International Booker Prize White Nights Urszula Honek Translated by Kate Webster Introduction by Jennifer Croft Book cover: A sunset(?) glow appears in the space between two clumps of trees. It is perhaps the source of the same colored (pinkish orange) oval-ish glow on the ground. A bookmark depicting a cartoon hummingbird is tucked in the pages at the bottom of the book.
August 16, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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🌊 TODAY in San Francisco! Join us and @twolinespress.com at the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social for a conversation with author of SEA NOW Eva Meijer, translator @anne-t-melo.bsky.social and Gregory Hom at the SFPL Main Library's Koret Auditorium at 6pm: buff.ly/gGR7rLg
SFPL On the Same Page presents Sea Now - CAT Center
As part of San Francisco Public Library's Everybody's Climate programming, Sea Now is the July-August selection for their bi-monthly featured book program, On
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August 18, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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I have a press membership, and it’s fantastic to have a new work of literature-in-translation arrive every month.

If you’ve got a spare $14/month, it’s definitely worth it: www.twolinespress.com/shop/members...
Two Lines Press Membership | Two Lines Press
Two Lines Press is committed to publishing daring and original literature in translation in striking editions. With a Two Lines Press membership, you’ll
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August 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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@twolinespress.com is hiring a full-time Press Administrator and The Center for the Art of Translation is seeking an experienced and driven customer-service professional to serve as the Bookstore & Visitor Services Manager (BVSM).

Applications will be open until Aug 21, 5 pm PST:
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Opportunities at CAT - CAT Center
The Center for the Art of Translation is currently hiring for two in-person San Francisco Bay Area positions: a Press Administrator for our book publisher Two
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August 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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An excellent mail day, thanks to @twolinespress.com. Especially loved this part of the included letter: “This book is exactly the kind of work that we love producing and the kind of work that makes us proud to lose our NEA funding.”

Hell yeah.
A photo of a sticker that reads, “READ TRANS POETS”; a copy of Splendor: Trans Poets (translated from various languages); and a letter that reads: Dear reader, We could not be more pleased to share our newest book in the Calico series, Splendor: Trans Poets. Or rather, I am pleased that you, our members, could share this with all of us. This book is exactly the kind of work that we love producing and the kind of work that makes us proud to lose our NEA funding. Thank you for allowing us to continue our work. Splendor is not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to give a select group of authors the space to showcase the breadth of their work. To give authors a chance to truly speak. Thank you for making this space. ill nippashi Marketing Manager
August 13, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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#FridayReads
White Nights
by Urszula Honek
translated by Kate Webster
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#Booksky #nowreading #booksintranslation
August 14, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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Tuesday August 11: "Downpour" by Son Bo-mi; translated by Janet Hong.
"Her husband, a salesperson at an electronics store, collapsed one day while wandering the empty aisles." #WITmonth
A library copy of Swell the cover is bright green with black trash bags spelling out the title.
August 11, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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🌊 Tuesday, Aug. 18 in San Francisco! Author of SEA NOW Eva Meijer and translator @anne-t-melo.bsky.social will be in conversation with Gregory Hom, Program Manager of the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social at SFPL Main Library's Koret Auditorium. Join us & @twolinespress.com at 6pm: buff.ly/gGR7rLg
SFPL On the Same Page presents Sea Now - CAT Center
As part of San Francisco Public Library's Everybody's Climate programming, Sea Now is the July-August selection for their bi-monthly featured book program, On
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August 11, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Those two anthologies are especially cool from @twolinespress.com and @solarisbooks.bsky.social:

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August 7, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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“I loved the quirkiness of the text–the way it ranges from funny to unsettling and the way it switches between voices”, translator Anne Thompson Melo on translating SEA NOW, 2024 winner of @twolinespress.com’s & Peirene Press’s Stevns Translation Prize. Read the interview here.
Sea Now: An Interview with translator Anne Thompson Melo - CAT Center
Set in a flooded Netherlands, Eva Meijer’s Sea Now follows three women who choose to stay behind as the ocean consumes their cities and memories. Traveling by
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August 5, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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SEA NOW is sailing to the @sfpubliclibrary.bsky.social! Join us and @catranslation.org for an evening with Eva Meijer and Anne Thompson Melo in conversation with Gregory Hom on August 18 at 6pm. We'd love to see you there! 👋 🌊🛶 sfpl.org/books-and-me...
July 31, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Based in SF? Come work with us! 👋
catranslation.org Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · Jul 30
📣 We're hiring for two new in-person positions in San Francisco! @twolinespress.com is hiring a full-time Press Administrator to support the administration of the press, including maintaining the submissions management system, customer service & membership coordination, mailing & fulfillment +
Graphic announcing a new job opportunity at Two Lines Press. Text reads: We're Hiring, Role: Press Administrator.
July 30, 2026 at 7:23 PM