Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright

Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright is the translator of Beauty and the Best: The Aesthetic Moment in Science, originally written in German by Ernst Peter Fischer. She has been translating Zafer Senocak and other contemporary German poets for years, and her work has been featured in such publication as the Seneca Review, Exchanges, Agni, and Another Chicago Magazine. Winner of the Gary Wilson Award from the University of Arkansas Press and Agni's William J. Arrowsmith Translation Award, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Literary Translators Association, and the University of Arkansas Fulbright College. Editor of German language poetry in New European Poets (Graywolf 2008), she has taught classes and workshops in translation at Boston University, Oberlin College, and the University of Arkansas. Door Languages, her translations of poetry by Zafer Senocak, appeared with Zephyr Press in October 2008. (2008)

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March 19, 2009