Acacia Wastchak
Born and raised in Phoenix and a third generation Sun Devil, Acacia Wastchak is a third-year undergraduate student in Barrett, the Honors College at ASU studying International Trade with a minor in French. Travel and foreign languages are two of her biggest passions and what has led her to study abroad in Ecuador, Italy, and now France for the spring semester. Both her mother and grandmother are writers, so literature - and especially poetry - have always been a big part of Acacia's life and inspired her own love of writing and language. Acacia is a polyglot and speaks Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese in addition to English and is currently learning German. As an intern for TLP this semester, she is both translating poetry from HFR into Spanish, Italian, and French as well as running the Earth Day Translation Challenge in Aix-en-Provence, France at the local universities. (updated 2023)
Essays / Translation Notes
Translations
"Head of Dvarapalas" by Jenny Yang Cropp (French)
“Pahá Sápa” by Julia Peçanha (French)
"The Saints of Negativity" by Norman Dubie (Italian)
"The Train" by Norman Dubie (Spanish)
"Water in Love" by Ed Bok Lee (Italian)