recent 

• German workshop leader for literary translation summer school at Bristol University
• Tutor at Bard College Berlin’s Language and Thinking Program

education

University of East Anglia, 1987-1991, BA in German under Max Sebald (minor in Film)

University of Surrey, 2006-8, MA in TEFL/Linguistics by distance programme

stipends and residencies

2025: Hawthornden Fellow, Scotland

2024: Hoskings Cottage, Stratford-Upon-Avon

2023: Goethe Institute residency and stipend in Gut Siggen, Ostholstein

2021/22: Working stipends from the German Translator Funds (DÜF)

2017: Residency at Straelen Übersetzerhaus, Nordrhein Westfalen

2015: Residency at the Baltic Translators’ House in Visby, Sweden. Translation project: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf by Silke Scheuermann (Seagull Books, 2018)

2014: Arts OMI residency in upstate New York. Translation project I Have No Regrets by Brigitte Reimann (Seagull Books, 2019).

2010: International Meeting of Translators from German, LCB, Berlin.

professional memberships and contributions

• Society of Authors, Translators’ Association
• Writer of book reports for New Books in German
• Contributor to the 2023 Austrian issue of Riveter magazine with a portrait of Elfriede Jelinek
• Contributor to the YouTube channel, Translators Aloud