I translate German fiction and non-fiction, and also occasionally write. I’ve worked with Faber, Verso Books, Rowohlt Verlag and Klett-Cotta, and New Books in German magazine. My first book-length translation will be published in 2027.
Here’s a list of recently published work:
Suzy by Clemens Setz
My translation of Clemens J. Setz’s short story ‘Suzy’ was published in the latest Chicago Review, and has been selected for Deep Vellum‘s Best Literary Translations 2025 anthology
Shades of Grey
I wrote about two new books on the GDR, Katja Hoyer’s Beyond the Wall and Dirk Oschmann’s Osten: eine Westdeutsche Erfindung, and their reception in Germany for the Verso Blog
On Getting Up by Helga Schubert
I translated an extract of Helga Schubert’s Vom Aufstehen for Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation
Our Father by Angela Lehner
I translated the opening of Angela Lehner’s Vater unser for No Man’s Land