Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Chair)is a writer, poet, translator, musician, and editor. She writes and translates in English, French, Chinese, and occasionally Spanish. She also works with Italian and Japanese. Her work includes a novel in stories, Dear Chrysanthemums (Scribner, 2023), five poetry collections, most recently Rain in Plural (Princeton, 2020) and The Ruined Elegance (Princeton, 2016), twenty translations, and three coedited anthologies of international literature. Laureate of the 2026 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Best Translated Book Award, and the Derek Walcott Poetry Prize among other honors, she is longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. A 2019–20 Abigail R. Cohen Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination and the inaugural writer-in-residence at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, she serves as an editor at Vif Éditions in Paris. As a zheng harpist, she has performed widely in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. She is also involved in mediation, arbitration, and negotiation. A judge for the 2025 International Dublin Literary Award, the 2025 and 2026 John Calder Translation Prize, she lives in Paris.