Alyson Waters's translations include Louis Aragon's Treatise on Style (1991), Tzvetan Todorov's The Morals of History (1995) and Reda Bensmaia's Experimental Nations: Or, the Invention of the Maghreb (2003). She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. The translation of Foreign Words was made possible by a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.
