VALA THORODDS

Vala Thorodds is founding director of the literary press Partus, co-founding editor of the poetry journal Pain, 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 PEN/Heim Grant and the World Literature Today Translation Prize, and has MFAs in Literary Translation and Creative Writing from the University of Iowa, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow, and Boston University. Waitress in Fall, her selected translations of the poems of Kristín Ómarsdóttir, 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 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize.

 

She is represented by Anna Webber at AM Heath Literary Agency.