Nedra Eileen Bickham
Nedra Eileen Bickham is a translator, musician, teacher, and explorer of the unique coexistence of language and music. Her translations of short stories by the German author Julia Franck have appeared in Passport: The Arkansas Review of Literary Translation, Absinthe: New European Writing, and No Man’s Land: Berlin Journal for Poetry and Prose; as well as her translations of poetry by Andreas Randow in Perihelion Poetry Journal. Nedra is presently working on a master’s degree in German language and literature from Tufts University in Massachusetts.
Julia Franck
Julia Franck was born in East Berlin and moved with her family to West Berlin in 1978. She now works as a freelance author and journalist, and to date has had three novels and two short story collections published. Julia Franck won the 3Sat Prize at the esteemed Ingeborg Bachmann Competition (2000), the “Roswitha Preis” from the city of Bad Gandersheim and has recently completed a writing fellowship at the Villa Massimo in Rome. Her newest novel is entitled Die Mittagsfrau (2007) for which she was awarded the coveted German Book Prize.