Kalpana Raina, translator of For Now, It Is Night, will speak with D. W. Gibson at the Sant Jordi USA Book Festival in Manhattan!

Kalpana Raina was born in Kashmir and lives in New York. She is a senior executive with extensive financial, management and advisory experience internationally. Raina is currently the Vice Chair at Words Without Borders, a premier online journal of translations. Her collaborative translation project of stories from the Kashmiri language, For Now, It Is Night, is her first work of translation.

DW Gibson is the author of the awarding-winning book The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century and Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy. He shared a National Magazine Award for his work on “This Is the Story of One Block in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn” for New York. Gibson has been a contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered and “There Goes the Neighborhood,” a podcast coproduced by WNYC and The Nation. He is a frequent guest host for WNYC’s Midday.