Adam Wier

ADAM WIER, a Fullstack Javascript developer, adjunct professor, translator and editor, was born in Indianapolis, and moved to New York City at age seventeen. He earned a BA in Spanish-English Translation from Hunter College (CUNY), where he graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian. He served as the head translator for phati'tude Literary Magazine's  "¿What’s in a Nombre?" (Vol. 1; No. 10, 2012), 2Leaf Press' first book,  ¡Hey Yo! ¡Yo Soy! 40 Years of Nuyorican Street Poetry (2012), and copyedited several 2Leaf Press titles in both English and Spanish. He has also translated articles for the online magazine Warscapes (2013) and was one of several translators to bring Roberto Echavarren’s book, The Russian Nights (2011) to English. Wier served as managing director of Haberdash Theatre (2005-2013), and produced three of his plays, The Asexual Revolution (2007), Remember Me (2006), and Tom’s Dilemma (2008). He won a Fulbright Fellowship and relocated to Cali, Colombia to teach. He currently lives in Le Mans, France where he has taught English, worked on translations from Spanish and French to English, and currently works at MATOS-BTP as a Fullstack Javascript developer.