[2] Romaine won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 2007 to facilitate her translation of Spectres and was named runner-up for the 2011 Banipal Prize for the same book.
She was awarded a second NEA fellowship for 2015, to support the translation of A Cloudy Day on the Western Shore.
Romaine has also published a number of shorter translations, including short stories and selections from Abbasid poetry, in such literary journals as The St. Petersburg Review, Metamorphoses, and Pusteblume.
: A Handwriting Workbook for Letters and Words (including handwritten models for Arabic script by Lana Iskandarani), with Georgetown University Press.
In December 2022, Romaine joined the adjunct faculty at New York University, serving as thesis reviewer for NYU’s Master’s in Translation & Interpretation program.