I graduated with an MFA in literary translation (French and German) in 2004 and have been a freelancer ever since.

Two book-length translations which I have done have been published within the past two years, one of which (The Tongue's Blood Does Not Run Dry, by Assia Djebar) won a PEN American Center Translation Fund Grant in 2006. I am I: Experiences of Self in Early Childhood, was published last year. I have also translated a screenplay and a memoir.

Last summer I worked as a FR < > EN interpreter for the International Women's Institute on Leadership and Disability in Eugene, Oregon while doing ongoing work for different translation agencies. This year, I work in the mornings as a teaching assistant at a French immersion kindergarten.

I have also done translation (whether through direct contact or via an agency) for Greenpeace, Chanel, Peugeot, The International Museum of Women, Sapient Technologies, Sunny Side of the Doc film festival, Garnier, Phillips, the Euromed Committee, Canon, and more.

I was recently selected to be a resident at the Banff Literary Centre in 2008.

Education, awards, and publications:

Master's degree in literary translation, University of Iowa (2004)
BA in French literature, Reed College (2001)

PEN American Center Translation Fund Grant, 2006

ALTA (American Literary Translators' Association) fellowship, 2005

Translations published in The Literary Review, Passport, The Norwich Papers, and Absinthe: New European Writing.

Writing has been published in Exquisite Corpse, The San Jose Mercury News, The Portland Alliance, Willamette Weekly, The Norwich Papers, and Transitions Abroad.