Olivia Sears

Olivia E. Sears is a writer, editor, and literary translator. She is founder of the Center for the Art of Translation in San Francisco, where she edited the journal Two Lines for over a decade and now serves on the editorial board of Two Lines Press. Her own translations from Italian focus on poetry by women from the past 100 years, from early Dada to the contemporary avant-garde, and she is currently translating poet and dramaturge Mariangela Gualtieri. She recently published her translation of a 1915 work of experimental poetry, Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms, by Italian painter and poet Ardengo Soffici. Also a musician, Sears has performed and recorded gamelan music from West Java with the ensemble Pusaka Sunda for more than 25 years.