Karen Emmerich

Karen Emmerich is a translator of eleven books of Modern Greek poetry and prose. Her recent translations include Christos Ikonomou’s Something Will Happen, You’ll See (Archipelago), Sofia Nikolaidou’s The Scapegoat (Melville House), and Amanda Michalopoulou’s Why I Killed My Best Friend (Open Letter). Her co-translation with Edmund Keeley of Yannis Ritsos’s Diaries of Exile (Archipelago) was awarded the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and her translation of Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos Sachtouris (Archipelago) was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University.