Athina Papa has been a professional wordsmith all her life. She was born and grew up in the United States and was educated in Europe, she earned her degree in foreign languages and literature with a disseration on New York Puerto Rican Street Theater. She has been an interpreter for international organizations and a translator for over 20 years. She has interpreted in over 950 conferences and has translated over 80 books and articles, and hundreds of pages of technical text. She has taught interpretation, translation and effective communication at several Italian Universities and institutions.
In 2012 she founded Language+Literary Translations, a translators’ co-op: www.literarytranslations.us for the translation of novels and has overseen the translation of books by Bella Andre, Barbara Freethy, Claudia Alexander, Nancy Warren, Debra Hollande, C.J. Lyons, Julie Kenner, Lisa Marie Rice, Donna Grant and more.
She is a member of AIIC (The International Association of Conference Interpreters), the New York Circle of Translators, ATA (American Translators Association), a partner member of ALLI (The Alliance of Independent Authors) and associate member of RWA (Romance Writers of America).