Samantha Schnee is a British and American Spanish to English translator.

In 2023 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship to translate Mexican author Carmen Boullosa’s novel El complot de los románticos; working title: Dante Hits the Road. She has worked extensively with Boullosa for two decades, translating her fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and a screenplay. Published work includes the PEN America Translation Prize shortlisted Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014), The Book of Anna (Coffee House Press, 2020), and The Book of Eve (Deep Vellum, 2023) as well as a collection of poetry, Weather Report (Broken Bowl Books, 2026).

In 2024 Schnee received a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin to translate Irati Elorrieta’s award-winning debut novel, Winter Lights, winner of the 2025 Sundial House Prize, which includes publication by Columbia University Press in 2027.

She is currently translating The Boom Letters: The Correspondence of Julio Cortázar, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa, which Princeton University Press will publish in 2028.

Schnee is the founding editor of WordsWithoutBorders.org and currently chairs its board of trustees.