Jennifer Hayashida

My practices as a writer, translator, educator, and artist are grounded in dislocation, translation, and decolonization.

A Machine Wrote This Song, my first collection of poetry, was published in 2018 by Gramma Poetry and is now available through Black Ocean and SPD.

Here’s a trailer for the book!

I translate from Swedish to English, and am especially committed to working with feminist and anti-racist texts across all genres.

My award-winning translation work includes sample translations, complete manuscripts, scholarly articles + monographs, journalistic writing, curatorial texts + museum catalogues, subtitles, and children’s + YA fiction.

Beginning in fall 2018, I will be a doctoral candidate at Valand Academy, the University of Gothenburg, conducting an interdisciplinary artistic research project around migration, experimental translation, and polyvocality.

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