Shelby Vincent

Shelby Vincent is a literary translator in Dallas Texas. Her translation—Heavens on Earth (Deep Vellum, 2017)—by contemporary Mexican author Carmen Boullosa was runner-up for the 2018 Texas Institute of Letters' Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translation of a Book and was long-listed for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Her translation of another of Boullosa's novels is forthcoming from Deep Vellum. Vincent is also Associate Director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas, Managing Editor of Translation Review, and an adjunct lecturer of Translation Studies at UTD. 

Event: The Art of Literary Translation