VALA THORODDS
Vala Thorodds is founding director of the literary press Partus, and managing editor of Oxford Poetry.
Her poetry, translations, and non-fiction are published by The Guardian, Granta, BBC Radio 4, The White Review, PN Review, The Stinging Fly, and the anthologies New Poetries VII and The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, among others.
She has received a World Literature Today Translation Prize, and her selected translations of the poems of Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Waitress in Fall, was chosen by The Sunday Times and The White Review as a poetry book of the year. Her English translation of Ómarsdóttir’s novel Swanfolk (Harvill Secker / HarperVia) was longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and received a PEN/Heim.
She has an MPhil in English Studies from the University of Cambridge, an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and taught literary translation, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University, where she taught creative writing. She is represented by Anna Webber at AM Heath Literary Agency.
She has received a World Literature Today Translation Prize, and her selected translations of the poems of Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Waitress in Fall, was chosen by The Sunday Times and The White Review as a poetry book of the year. Her English translation of Ómarsdóttir’s novel Swanfolk (Harvill Secker / HarperVia) was longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and received a PEN/Heim.
She has an MPhil in English Studies from the University of Cambridge, an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow and taught literary translation, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Boston University, where she taught creative writing. She is represented by Anna Webber at AM Heath Literary Agency.
