The Intern

Leyla Shukurli is a writer, singer, and songwriter based in Germany. Translations of her fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in The Dial, Words Without Borders, AGNI, Reading in Translation, Turkoslavia, and Tint Journal. Born in Siberia to an Azerbaijani family, she grew up at the crossroads of the cultures and languages that have defined her artistic path. (updated 4/2026)

Sabrina Jaszi’s work has been published in The New York Review of Books, Subtropics, AGNI, The Dial, and Words Without Borders. With Roman Ivashkiv, she translated Andriy Sodomora’s The Tears and Smiles of Things (Academic Studies Press, 2024). A cofounder of the Turkoslavia translation collective and journal, she lives in California. More at www.turkoslavia.com/. (updated 4/2026)