Emily Gogolak

Emily Gogolak is a journalist and translator from the French. She studied French Philosophy and Literature at the Université de la Sorbonne in Paris and is a graduate of Brown University in Comparative Literature. A former editorial staffer at The New Yorker and a James Reston Reporting Fellow at the New York Times, she now lives in Texas. Her writing focuses on migration, gender, and the US-Mexico border, and has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Nation, and The Village Voice, and in the anthology City by City: Dispatches from the American Metropolis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015). Her translations have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Lana Turner Journal of Poetry and Opinion, and The Review of Contemporary Fiction. She won a 2015 French Voices Award for her translation of Yanick Lahens’ Moonbath.