ABOUT
SACHA IDELL is a writer, translator, and editor from Northern California. His stories appear in the Chicago Tribune, Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, New England Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. His published translations include work by the Japanese writers Toshirō Sasaki and Kyūsaku Yumeno. Stories he has acquired and edited have been selected for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, Best American Mystery and Suspense, and PEN America Best Debut Fiction.
Sacha holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas, where he helped found The Arkansas International and received fellowships in fiction and literary translation. His work has been selected for Narrative’s “30 Under 30” list of emerging writers and been named one of Narrative’s top 5 stories of the year. He has also received fellowships from the Walton Family Foundation, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation and Sozopol Fiction Seminars, and the Tin House Summer Workshop. After a number of years spent in Tokyo and Osaka, Sacha now lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he works remotely as coeditor and prose editor of The Southern Review.