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CJ Evans
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Poet. Editor in chief at Two Lines Press.
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Congratulations to Two Lines authors & translators Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney, Mohamed Kheir, and Robin Moger 🎉

Sleep Phase and The Queen of Swords are both longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature. 📚 www.catranslation.org/books/#displ...
September 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Love these books like I love you like I love cats like I love good totes and all those things are one in a Two Lines membership. ❤️
Today until 9/21, all NEW Two Lines Press members will receive the new CAT @catranslation.org tote bag! A membership gets you early access (w/ free U.S. shipping included) for all our books (8-10/year), plus exclusive member gifts. Join us! www.catranslation.org/books-member...
September 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Seattle Supersonics.
June 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
June 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
When you cut arts coverage. When you print ads like news. When AI becomes a writing “tool”.

chicago.suntimes.com/press-room/2...
Chicago Sun-Times response to May 18 special section
chicago.suntimes.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
What do you plan to spend all that hoarded wealth on?
May 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Beautiful things are wasteful spending.
May 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Is it time to eat the rich yet? I’m getting pretty hungry.
May 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
The only way I can explain it to myself is people apparently care as much about the arts as I do about AI emoji generators.
May 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
One of my least favorite things is writers, artists, translators, whatever explaining the things they made. Sucks all the magic out of the room.
May 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
[almost deadly birds of the soul]
Every angel is terrifying.
March 21, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Every angel is terrifying.
March 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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There's still time to submit to the Stevns Translation Prize! The package includes mentorship, a French farmhouse retreat, and a deal with both Two Lines Press and Peirene Press. More details here: www.stevnstranslationprize.com
The Stevns Translation Prize
The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...
www.stevnstranslationprize.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Publishing would be in a much better spot if we were all a bit less efficient. If writers were slower, editors were slower, the cycle of new books was just slowed down.
March 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
So happy to see Astrid Roemer and Lucy Scott get this recognition for this absolute force of a book. I’ve never read anything like it and I’m so proud @twolinespress.bsky.social got to publish it in the US and to have partnered with the peerless @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social in the U.K.!
🎉 International Booker list just dropped! Congratulations to Astrid Roemer and Lucy Scott for ON A WOMAN'S MADNESS!! US readers can order it through our website or (of course) with your favorite indie bookstore 🎉 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
On a Woman's Madness | The Booker Prizes
This classic of queer literature – as electrifying today as it was when it first appeared in 1982 – tells the story of a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her choosing
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February 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Know any emerging French translators? Two Lines Press has partnered with Peirene Press in the UK to award the Stevns Translation Prize. Check out the details here (which includes a retreat in the French Pyrenees mountains!). Tell all your Francophone friends www.stevnstranslationprize.com/2025-prize
The Stevns Translation Prize - 2025 Prize
THE STEVNS TRANSLATION PRIZE 2025 Please enter the prize via the link here. More information is below. The full terms and conditions can be found here, and the extract to be translated here. The Me...
www.stevnstranslationprize.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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🎉 Happy pub date to Voices of Adriana by Elvira Navarro! 🎉 Pick up a copy at your local independent bookstore or order directly from us www.catranslation.org/shop/book/th...
February 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Poetry is a sword of lightning. Take that Thomas Love Peacock.
The first dis track was PB Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry
February 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
The first dis track was PB Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry
February 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
There’s something so humble and human about this P.S. from @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social It quieted the noise for a minute. Their spring books look 🔥 too. Buy good books from good people. uglyducklingpresse.org
February 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney, in Granta.

VOICES OF ADRIANNA is forthcoming from @twolinespress.bsky.social on February 18.

granta.com/images-of-wo...
Images of Women | Elvira Navarro | Granta
‘In the years before his stroke, just how many times had her father told a woman he loved her after dating for two or three weeks?’ Fiction by Elvira Navarro, translated by Christina MacSweeney.
granta.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Jenny Holzer.
February 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Richard Siken
January 31, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Submissions are now open for the Stevn's Prize! Two Lines Press is seeking emerging French to English translators. To learn more please visit: www.stevnstranslationprize.com
The Stevns Translation Prize
The Stevns Translation Prize, run by Peirene Press (UK) and Two Lines Press (US), is an annual award which offers opportunities for emerging translators to translate their first full-length work of fi...
www.stevnstranslationprize.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
January 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM