Jennifer Hayashida
Translator
Jennifer Hayashida is a poet, translator, and artist based in Stockholm. She earned her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She is currently a PhD candidate in artistic research at HDKV, the Academy of Art & Design at Gothenburg University, and teaches in the creative writing program at Biskops Arnö Nordens Folkhögskola. Her dissertation project, Feeling Translation, is an artistic research enquiry where translation is deployed as writing apparatus, pedagogical scaffold, and practice of solidarity. She is the author of A Machine Wrote This Song (Gramma Poetry/Black Ocean, 2018) and the chapbook Översättaren som arkiv/Arkiv som översätter (Autor, 2020). Her scholarly and creative work has been published in journals including Women’s Studies Quarterly, Women & Performance, and The Asian American Literary Review. Her translations between Swedish and English include collections by Athena Farrokhzad, Don Mee Choi, Iman Mohammed, Kim Hyesoon, and Merima Dizdarević.
