Katie Lateef Jan is an educator, translator, and writer living in the Bay Area. She earned her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Comparative Literature with a Doctoral Emphasis in Translation Studies and is currently Founding Humanities Faculty and Curriculum Coordinator at San Francisco Girls' School. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Latin American literature, specifically traditions of women's writing in the Southern Cone and the work of Silvina Ocampo. She is the co-translator of Forgotten Journey, Ocampo's debut collection of short stories (City Lights Books, 2019) and the co-editor of Untranslatability Goes Global: The Translator’s Dilemma, part of Routledge’s Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies series (2018). A literary translator, her translations from the Spanish have appeared in The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, and Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, among others. She has taught classes to students of all ages in Comparative Literature, English, Linguistics, Translation Studies, Spanish, and Writing.