Podcast appearances:
Novel Dialogue: on Pink Slime with Fernanda Trías, April 2025
Translating the World with Rainer Schulte, Oct 2024
Other Ppl with Brad Listi: “Reservoir Bitches and the Art of Literary Translation”
with Julia Sanches, Sept 2024
Selected events:
National Book Foundation x NYPL World Literature Festival
Coming soon: New York City, April 2025
Conversation with Dahlia de la Cerda and Dolores Reyes
Hay Festival Dallas, Oct 2024
Conversation with Rebecca Solnit
Hay Festival Querétaro, Sept 2024 (video)
“Foreign Correspondence: The Translator’s Visibility“
Brown University, Mar 2024
After Translation: A Roundtable and Workshop Series
Princeton University, Feb 2023
Book presentation: Witches with Brenda Lozano and Catherine Lacey
Brookline Booksmith (virtual event), Aug 2022 (video)
Book presentation: American Delirium with Betina González and Carlos Fonseca
McNally Jackson (virtual event), Feb 2021 (video)
Book presentation: American Delirium with Betina González and Idra Novey
Politics and Prose (virtual event), Feb 2021 (video)
Literary Translation Clinic: How Do We Create a Philosophy of Translation? with Katrina Dodson
The Center for Fiction (virtual event), 2021 (video)
Book presentation: The Incompletes with Sergio Chejfec and Hernán Díaz
McNally Jackson Bookstore, New York City Nov 2019
Invited talk: “La beneficiosa duda del traductor” with Marcelo Cohen
NYU Creative Writing in Spanish, Apr 2019 (video – in Spanish)
Panel discussion with Hernán Diaz and Chris Fischbach
VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Ceremony, Nov 2018
Reading of Comemadre and panel discussion
National Book Award nominees at the Miami Book Fair, Nov 2018
Invited talk with Sergio Chejfec
Inauguration of the Certificate in Translation Studies, USC Oct 2018
Invited talk: “Ambiguity in Translation” with Sergio Chejfec
UC Riverside, Oct 2018
Book presentation: Melville’s Beard with Mark Haber
McNally Jackson Bookstore, New York City 2018
Beyond Borges: Argentina’s Unsung Literary Greats
PEN World Voices, Book Culture, Long Island City NYC 2018
Reading of Fernanda Trías’s Under One Roof
Molasses Books, Brooklyn NYC 2018
Book presentation: The Iliac Crest with Cristina Rivera Garza
Cervantes Institute, New York City 2017
Book presentation: The Little Buddhist Monk / Proof with César Aira
McNally Jackson Bookstore, New York City 2017
Book presentation: Such Small Hands with Andrés Barba
Community Bookstore, New York City 2017
Literary Magazine Editors Roundtable
New York Circle of Translators Annual Meeting, 2016
Book presentation: Retrato de Mussolini con familia with Mario Bellatin
McNally Jackson Bookstore, New York City 2016
“The Bridge Series: Breaking In” (video)
The Center for Fiction, New York City 2016
“Translating on the Edge” as panel co-organizer and moderator
PEN World Voices Festival, 2014
“The Art of Getting Lost (in translation)” with Sergio Chejfec
Boston University Translation Seminar, 2014
Interviews in print:
“Seeing Past and Under the Page: A Conversation with Heather Cleary”
The Rumpus, 2025
“The Novel as Total Organism: A Conversation with Betina González“
Two-way interview about the translation of American Delirium for Southwest Review, 2021
“On American Delirium“
Adam Vitcavage for Debutiful, 2021
“Ruminative Textures: A Conversation with Sergio Chejfec“
Two-way interview about the translation of The Incompletes for Southwest Review, 2019
“Between Humor and Horror: An interview with Heather Cleary, translator of Comemadre“
Denise Kripper for Latin American Literature Today, 2018
“An Interview with Heather Cleary and Margaret Carson“
Eric Becker for Asymptote, 2014
“The Heather Cleary Interview“
Stephen Sparks for The Quarterly Conversation, 2012
Heather Cleary 