Amy B. Reid is an award-winning translator and Professor of French and Gender Studies at New College of Florida. In 2016 she received a Literature Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for Patrice Nganang’s When the Plums Are Ripe. Her other translations include Patrice Nganang’s Dog Days, Mount Pleasant, and A Trail of Crab Tracks, Mutt-Lon’s The Blunder, and Véronique Tadjo’s Queen Pokou.