Drawing by Julie Delporte

Aleshia Jensen is a French-to-English freelance translator and former bookseller. Her previous work includes Prague by Maude Veilleux, co-translated with Aimee Wall, and several graphic novels. She is also the co-founder of Writers Bloc, a community of translators centered around continued learning and knowledge exchange. Explosions is also a finalist for the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for translation. She has translated two Quebec novels and several graphic novels, most recently Catherine Ocelot’s Art Life (La vie d’artiste), forthcoming from Conundrum in 2020.

Books translated by Aleshia Jensen

This Woman's Work

Explosions

Prague