Allison Markin Powell is a literary translator, editor, and publishing consultant. She has been awarded translation grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and English PEN, a residency from the Hawthornden Foundation, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami. Her other translations and co-translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Kanako Nishi, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, and Kaoru Takamura. As co-organizer and co-host of the Translating the Future conference, she helped to draft the Manifesto on Literary Translation. She is a founding member of the translator collectives Cedilla & Co. and Strong Women, Soft Power, is on the steering committee of the Literary Translators Division for the National Writers Union, and maintains the database Japanese Literature in English. She has taught literary translation at Hunter College (CUNY).