Samantha Schnee's translation of Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft (Deep Vellum, 2014) was shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize, and she was the recipient of a 2023 National Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship to translate Boullosa’s novel El complot de los románticos. Other translations of Boullosa's work include The Book of Anna (Coffee House, 2020) and The Book of Eve (Deep Vellum, 2023). Schnee received a 2024 fellowship from the American Academy in Berlin, where she translated Basque author Irati Elorrieta’s award-winning debut novel, Luces de invierno, forthcoming from the Sundial House imprint of Columbia University Press. Her first co-translation, with Will Morningstar, of Mariana Travacio’s All That Dies in April (World Editions) was published in September 2025.