Plants, Language, and Translation is a reading and conversation between author Jennifer Kabat and writer and translator Kate Briggs, as part of the In the Weeds series at Callie’s in Fall/Winter 2025.

Coming from different disciplines and research areas, they will discuss language as a means of tracing and understanding the histories and agencies of plants. Each author will share excerpts from their work.

Kate Briggs is a writer and translator based in Rotterdam, NL, where she co-runs the micro-press Short Pieces That Move! and teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute. She is the author of This Little Art (an essay about translation) and The Long Form (a novel, shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize in 2023). She recently published a translation of Hélène Bessette’s first novel Lili is Crying (Fitzcarraldo Editions & New Directions); Bessette’s Twenty Minutes of Silence will be published in June 2026.