Katie King

Journalist and Literary Translator from the Spanish
Journalist, Translator
Translates from:
Spanish
Translates to:
Portuguese, Spanish
Available for (translation):
Crime fiction, Literary fiction, Narrative non-fiction, Poetry

Katie King is a journalist and literary translator who holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies from the University of Washington in Seattle. Her book translations include A Form of Resistance (Doolittle Project Publishing 2015) and Someone Speaks Your Name (Swan Isle Press 2021), both by Luis García Montero and My Clavicle, by Marta Sanz (Unnamed Press 2025). Her translation of One Year and Three Months, a bilingual edition of love poems by Luis García Montero, is forthcoming from Broken Bowl Books in the fall of 2025. As a journalist, she has lived and worked in Spain, Mexico, Central America and Brazil as well as London, New York and Washington, DC.