Hello there. I am currently accepting select commissions for literary translation, critical essays, guest teaching, and speaking events (conferences, festivals, and guest lectures).
For media contacts, event organizers, and institutional hosts: Below, you will find downloadable third-person bios, high-resolution headshots, and promotional assets. To discuss an upcoming project or event, please use the form at the bottom of this page.
Third-person Bios
Jenny Bhatt is an author, literary translator, and educator based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Texas. She serves as Associate Director for the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Translation Fellow, her scholarly and creative work bridges Translation Studies, Postmodernism, and the Global Historical Novel. Her short fiction has appeared in the Best American Mystery and Suspense (BAMS) 2021 anthology, with a Distinguished Mention in BAMS 2024. She is the author of Each of Us Killers, winner of a Foreword INDIES Award, and the translator of Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, a finalist for the 2021 Valley of Words Prize. Her literary and cultural criticism has appeared in venues like NPR, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.
Jenny Bhatt is an author, literary translator, scholar, and educator based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. She serves as Associate Director for the Center for Translation Studies and teaches creative writing and literary translation at the University of Texas at Dallas.
A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Translation Fellow, Bhatt’s scholarly and creative work bridges Translation Studies, Postmodernism, and the Global Historical Novel. Her short fiction appears in Best American Mystery and Suspense (BAMS) 2021, with a Distinguished Mention in BAMS 2024. She is the author of Each of Us Killers, winner of a Foreword INDIES Award, and translator of Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu (HarperCollins India), shortlisted for the Valley of Words Prize. Her forthcoming book-length translations include Varsha Adalja’s Gujarati feminist classic, Crossroad, and Jhaverchand Meghani’s folk collection, The Essence of Saurashtra.
Her literary criticism and cultural journalism have appeared in NPR, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, Words Without Borders, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is an active member of PEN America, ALTA, MLA, ACLA, and AWP, and previously served on the PEN Translation Prize jury. Her doctoral research investigates the historiographic role of the translator-figure in postmodern fiction, exploring how translation functions as a site of counter-archival recovery and narrative agency.
Before her academic transition, Bhatt spent two decades as a global executive leading enterprise pricing and engineering strategy across the US, UK, and Europe. Dedicated to amplifying historically marginalized voices, her work bridges linguistic, cultural, and institutional divides. A seasoned speaker and literary citizen, Jenny regularly presents on translation ethics, creative craft, and South Asian literature at universities, conferences, international festivals, and cultural institutions worldwide.
Jenny Bhatt is an author, literary translator, and Ph.D. candidate in Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she serves as Associate Director for the Center for Translation Studies and teaches undergraduate Creative Writing and Literary Translation. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Translation Fellow, her scholarly and creative work bridges Translation Studies, Postmodernism, and the Global Historical Novel. Her doctoral research investigates the historiographic role of the translator-figure in postmodern and contemporary fiction, exploring how translation functions as a counter-archival site of historical recovery and narrative agency. Her critical and public-facing scholarship has appeared in venues such as The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and Words Without Borders. She is the author of Each of Us Killers (winner of a Foreword INDIES Award) and translator of multiple volumes of Gujarati literature, including Ratno Dholi (finalist for the Valley of Words Prize) and The Shehnai Virtuoso. Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies such as Best American Mystery and Suspense (BAMS) 2021, with a Distinguished Mention in BAMS 2024.
