Catherine Hales grew up in Surrey and studied Comparative Literature in Norwich, where she got stuck for several years before moving to Germany, first nearly ten years in Stuttgart and, since 1999, in Berlin, where she earns her living as a freelance translator. She has also variously worked as a teacher, a nursery gardener, a census transcriber, a street musician, a video sound engineer and a film extra. She is an organiser of Poetry Hearings, the Berlin Fesival of Poetry in English. Her collection hazard or fall is due from Shearsman Books in 2010, as is berlin fresco, a selection of translations of poems of Berlin-based poet Norbert Hummelt, some of which appeared in no man's land # 3. A pamphlet of sonnets is forthcoming from Oystercatcher Press, and dual-language collaborations with Anna Hoffmann and Marcus Roloff are due soon. (2009)

no man's land workshop October 18 and 19, 2006
no man's land # 1 [audio], # 2, # 3, # 4