Thierry Kehou is a writer and literary translator based in Brooklyn, New York. His translation of Francis Bebey’s novella Three Little Shoeshiners received support from the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference and was long-listed for the 2020 John Dryden Translation Competition. Kehou holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers University-Newark and a BA in Individualized Study from New York University’s Gallatin School. He is a founding member and board member of Lampblack.