About Us

We are a very small publishing house founded in 2025 by Heidi Clark and Jenny Caitlyn Lee.

We want to publish the weird and wonderful projects that make translators smile. Despite the growing popularity of translated literature in the UK, the work of translators often remains invisible. Translators' House Press exists to raise the visibility of translators and their process by giving them the space to speak for themselves.

Co-Founders

Heidi Clark is a Japanese-to-English literary translator and zine-maker. She writes, makes and publishes work that illuminates the role of the translator and experiments with form. Her translation of Nakanishi Morina's essay Dried Seaweed at Midnight is published in Asymptote Journal.

Jenny Caitlyn Lee is a writer and translator from Wales who works with Taiwanese Mandarin, Welsh and English. She likes writing about language, place and body, and how they stabilise and de-stabilise identity. Her work is featured in UEA MA Anthologies 2025, and in an upcoming queer Welsh poetry anthology.

As a small press with a core team of two, we want to ensure that we operate in a way that respects ourselves, our time and our efforts, as well as those of the people we work with. We want to be fair to others and fair to ourselves.

• Books deserve to be beautiful. It does justice to the hard work of all those who contribute to their making. We will consider the construction of the book-object at all stages - form is not separate to the work, form is content.
• We value and prioritise sustainability, both in the production of our books and the longevity of our press. Rather than growing for growth's sake, we want to build slowly and sustainably.
• We are translator-led. The project is guided by what the translation needs, and that applies to length, form, type, and other material factors.
• AI is not a translator. We will not input any creative text (translation, commentary or source text) into AI, for summarising, editing, analysis or any other reason. We recognise that AI can be a tool for disability-related support. If we, our writers, or any of our contributors have used AI in any capacity to create one of our publications, we will state this clearly on the copyright page. If we do not feel comfortable publicly stating that we have used AI for any task, we should not use it for that task.
• We want to provide a non-academic, open space to learn about translation and the work of translators.
• Of the translators, for the translators. We will continue to develop our own practice and understanding of translation - engaging with literature in and on translation and continuing to work on translations ourselves.

This Little Art // by Kate Briggs

Mouth: Eats Color—Sagawa Chika Translations, Anti-Translations, & Originals // by Sawako Nakayasu

Fair: The Life-Art of Translation // by Jen Calleja

A Guillemot Guide to Very Small Press Publishing // by Luke Thompson