Hannah Lund
@hannah-lund.bsky.social
Writer, editor, Chinese-English translator, and Oxford comma enthusiast.
Words in Brink, The Boston Globe, Narrative, Atlas Obscura, Sixth Tone, Speculative Nonfiction, The Shanghai Literary Review & The World of Chinese
Words in Brink, The Boston Globe, Narrative, Atlas Obscura, Sixth Tone, Speculative Nonfiction, The Shanghai Literary Review & The World of Chinese
“Literature always manages to slip through the real and symbolic walls of oppressive governments. Asymptote may be a small chisel and drill, but these things force cracks that, time and again, have eventually brought the walls down.” -Eliot Weinberger
New issue out!
www.asymptotejournal.com
New issue out!
www.asymptotejournal.com
Winter 2026
Featuring Sanmao, Eduardo Halfon, Hamid Ismailov, and Anatoly Loginov in Part II of our Special Feature on attention
www.asymptotejournal.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:38 PM
“Literature always manages to slip through the real and symbolic walls of oppressive governments. Asymptote may be a small chisel and drill, but these things force cracks that, time and again, have eventually brought the walls down.” -Eliot Weinberger
New issue out!
www.asymptotejournal.com
New issue out!
www.asymptotejournal.com
Reposted by Hannah Lund
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Reposted by Hannah Lund
"You think you’re watching a woman drive away with an ICE agent following, then shooting her four times in the face, but what you’re really watching is an ICE agent in fear of his life and acting in self-defense."
What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching
“Federal and local officials dispute the circumstances that led an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to fatally shoot a 37-year-old woman...
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January 10, 2026 at 2:40 AM
"You think you’re watching a woman drive away with an ICE agent following, then shooting her four times in the face, but what you’re really watching is an ICE agent in fear of his life and acting in self-defense."
Pleased to talk with WaPo tech writer @danielleabril.bsky.social about the impact of the AI boom on the translation world. This International Translation Day, let’s take a moment to appreciate all that translation does to foster human connection. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
AI is taking on live translations. But jobs and meaning are getting lost.
New artificial intelligence-driven capabilities are expected to accelerate the shift from translation done by humans to machines.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Pleased to talk with WaPo tech writer @danielleabril.bsky.social about the impact of the AI boom on the translation world. This International Translation Day, let’s take a moment to appreciate all that translation does to foster human connection. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
“I believe that in the realm of literature we are, each of us, free. Free to imagine, to invent, to change our minds, to travel through time, across space, to feel and experience the full breadth of ourselves, and […] to step into the mind of another.”
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www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The end of writing and reading will be the end of freedom
Why graduation season is so heartening to me.
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June 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
“I believe that in the realm of literature we are, each of us, free. Free to imagine, to invent, to change our minds, to travel through time, across space, to feel and experience the full breadth of ourselves, and […] to step into the mind of another.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Very excited to see that Garland is out, featuring a piece I wrote musing on bao and asexuality. Thanks to the editors for their hard work! Enjoy 😊 fifthwheelpress.com/garland
GARLAND — fifth wheel press
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April 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Very excited to see that Garland is out, featuring a piece I wrote musing on bao and asexuality. Thanks to the editors for their hard work! Enjoy 😊 fifthwheelpress.com/garland
This might be my favorite thing 😍 Be sure to read the blurbs and vote for the first round! lithub.com/the-best-vil...
The Best Villains in Literature Bracket
Welcome to Literary Hub’s inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best Villains in Literature. Everyone loves a good villain—at least when they’re safely fictional—but which litera…
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March 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This might be my favorite thing 😍 Be sure to read the blurbs and vote for the first round! lithub.com/the-best-vil...
Call for submissions for an aroace themed volume! Deadline Feb. 14 with @esichr.bsky.social, the absolute gem of a writer, at the helm. Can’t wait to see the final product!
#amwriting #litmag #writing
oleada.io/publication/...
#amwriting #litmag #writing
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
oleada.io
February 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Call for submissions for an aroace themed volume! Deadline Feb. 14 with @esichr.bsky.social, the absolute gem of a writer, at the helm. Can’t wait to see the final product!
#amwriting #litmag #writing
oleada.io/publication/...
#amwriting #litmag #writing
oleada.io/publication/...
Well, well, another Year of the Snake!
Gosh I was so obsessed with this tale before moving to China back in 2012, and I still remember watching “Green Snake” with a friend—both of us Snakes, both of us yearning to be somehow both green and white snake at once.
www.sixthtone.com/news/1016587
Gosh I was so obsessed with this tale before moving to China back in 2012, and I still remember watching “Green Snake” with a friend—both of us Snakes, both of us yearning to be somehow both green and white snake at once.
www.sixthtone.com/news/1016587
How a Green Snake Became a Feminist Symbol in China
In early tellings of “Legend of the White Snake,” Green Snake was a sideshow. Now she’s the star.
www.sixthtone.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Well, well, another Year of the Snake!
Gosh I was so obsessed with this tale before moving to China back in 2012, and I still remember watching “Green Snake” with a friend—both of us Snakes, both of us yearning to be somehow both green and white snake at once.
www.sixthtone.com/news/1016587
Gosh I was so obsessed with this tale before moving to China back in 2012, and I still remember watching “Green Snake” with a friend—both of us Snakes, both of us yearning to be somehow both green and white snake at once.
www.sixthtone.com/news/1016587
“sometimes you said goodnight
I understood that it was not for me”
Such a treat, always, to read thoughtful works like these in translation!
I understood that it was not for me”
Such a treat, always, to read thoughtful works like these in translation!
A poem cycle from Ukraine on queer love, grief, and the slow passage of time. Read Alex Averbuch’s “Queer Shores of Ukraine,” translated from Ukrainian by Oksana Maksymchuk, Max Rosochinsky, and Alex Averbuch, on WWB:
Queer Shores of Ukraine - Words Without Borders
A cycle of Ukrainian poetry on queer love, grief, and the slow passage of time.
buff.ly
February 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“sometimes you said goodnight
I understood that it was not for me”
Such a treat, always, to read thoughtful works like these in translation!
I understood that it was not for me”
Such a treat, always, to read thoughtful works like these in translation!
Making the move over to BlueSky! Recommendations or advice welcome :) Stay healthy and hydrated everyone!
February 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Making the move over to BlueSky! Recommendations or advice welcome :) Stay healthy and hydrated everyone!