Currently living in Berlin, I translate poetry, literary prose and philosophy from primarily Swedish and German, but also Norwegian, Danish and Faroese.

I grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota, before studying Swedish, Scandinavian studies, Germanic philology and linguistics at the University of Minnesota. I then earned an MA in Swedish literature from the University of Washington. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University with in dissertation on ecopoetics in 20th century German and Swedish poetry.

I participated in the Swedish translation workshop Översättargruvan in 2021, was a 2022 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentee for Swedish (mentored by fellow SELTA member Kira Josefsson), and was a 2024 NCW Emerging Translator Mentee for Faroese (mentored by Marita Thomsen). I was selected as a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Translation Fellow.

Education: Ph.D., Modern Languages & Literatures, Johns Hopkins University, 2020-ongoing. M.A., Scandinavian Languages & Literature, University of Washington-Seattle, 2020. B.A., German, Scandinavian & Dutch (Scandinavian track), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, 2017.

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