Tess O'Dwyer

Tess O'Dwyer's English rendition of the Latino literary classic Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi won the Columbia University Translation Center Award and inaugurated the Yale Library of World Literature in Translation. With a master's degree in literature from Rutgers, she edited Review: Art and Literature of the Americas and translated the nineteenth century social realist Chilean novel Martin Rivas by Alberto Blest Gana for Oxford University Press. Tess O'Dwyer's short story about her...See more

Tess O'Dwyer's English rendition of the Latino literary classic Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi won the Columbia University Translation Center Award and inaugurated the Yale Library of World Literature in Translation. With a master's degree in literature from Rutgers, she edited Review: Art and Literature of the Americas and translated the nineteenth century social realist Chilean novel Martin Rivas by Alberto Blest Gana for Oxford University Press. Tess O'Dwyer's short story about her late Korean mother, entitled "Ballerina of Chestnut Mountain," won first place in the national short story competition of the Hackney Literary Awards. She is a board member of PEN American Center, Evergreen Review, and Harvard University's Cultural Agents Initiative. She runs her own fundraising consultancy in New York City. See less