The kind of translation I truly relish demands imagination, creativity, and sensitivity to stylistic nuances. Social history, human rights, feminism, and the natural world are among my main personal interests.

I hold a BA Honours degree (First Class) in modern and medieval languages from Oxford University, an MA in linguistics from Reading University, and a BSc. Honours degree (Open, First Class) in political science, development studies and economics from the Open University. 

Over the last few years I have translated books by Swedish authors Elisabeth Åsbrink, Elin Anna Labba, Karin Bojs, Torill Kornfeldt and Johanna Gillbro. My translation from the Dutch of Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives came out in 2022. My latest translation, Elin Anna Labba's The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi), was shortlisted for the George Bernard Shaw award (UK) and received an honourable mention in the competition for the Lois Roth award (awarded by the North American Modern Languages Association). 

In 2015 I came second (out of about 200) in Geisteswissenschaften International's competition for non-fiction translation from German, in 2018 I took part in New Books in German's scheme for emerging literary translators, and in 2024 I was the runner-up for the Goethe-Institut's Award for New Translation.

The literary platforms and journals to which I have contributed include Asymptote, Words Without Borders, the European Literature Network's Riveter magazine, Litro (UK and US), the Swedish Book Review, the Baltic Sea Library, the Short Story Project, No Man's Land, and the Cordite Poetry Review.

My active languages are Swedish, Dutch, German, French and Spanish, and I also read Danish, Norwegian and Portuguese. I am a full member of the UK Society of Authors / Translators' Association and of the Swedish Översättarcentrum.