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. She is the co-translator of Silvina Ocampo's Forgotten Journey (City Lights Books) and the co-editor of Untranslatability Goes Global: The Translator’s Dilemma, part of Routledge’s Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies series. Her translations from the Spanish have appeared in The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, Granta, and Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, among others. She was previously founding faculty at San Francisco Girls' School and now teaches at the Branson School.