Bosnian writer Asja Bakić will read from her new story collection Mars. She will be in conversation with translator and Iowa Translation/Nonfiction Workshops alum Jennifer Zoble, and leading Slavic languages scholar and visiting professor Ellen Elias-Bursać. Mars “strikingly examines sci-fi tropes from not only the point of view of women, but also from the voice of an effortlessly gifted writer.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Asja Bakić is a Bosnian poet, writer, and translator. She was selected as one of Literary Europe Live's New Voices from Europe, and her writing has been translated into seven languages.

Jennifer Zoble translates Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian- and Spanish-language literature. Her translations have appeared in Washington Square, The Iowa Review, The Baffler, and elsewhere. She received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts and is an assistant clinical professor in the interdisciplinary Liberal Studies program at NYU.

Ellen Elias-Bursać translates Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian literature, including work by David Albahari, Dubravka Ugrešić, and Daša Drndić. She is co-author of a textbook for the study of Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian and author of Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War, awarded the Mary Zirin Prize.