This chapter is a written exchange, between five women with different stakes in literary translation, that took place in 2019. It touches on translation craft, the formation of translators, who gets to translate what, questions of accessibility and privilege, the intimacies between the author and translator, the negative affect that comes with translating in a culture of rampant ‘gotcha’ criticism, translation as collaboration, among other topics. It is a conversation without consensus and clearly without end – but powered by an ongoing investment in thinking, reading and writing translations.