Shelley Fairweather-Vega is a professional translator of Russian and Uzbek in Seattle, Washington, where she runs the Northwest Literary Translators, manages a library consulting business, and serves on the advisory board of the Translation Studies Hub at the University of Washington. Her translation practice focuses on the contemporary literature of Central Asia. Shelley’s translation of Hamid Ismailov’s We Computers: A Ghazal Novel was a Finalist for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature.