Ingrid
Lansford earned her Ph.D. in English at the University of Texas
in Austin. Her short prose translations have appeared in a dozen anthologies
and journals, including Absinthe: New European Writing, Contemporary
Austrian Writings, Continuum 2007, Dimension2, Metamorphoses,
Passport, Rhino, The Scandinavian Review, and Words
without Borders. She won the Leif and Inger Sjöberg Translation
Prize of the American-Scandinavian Foundation in 2004 and in 2007 she
received a translation grant for five contemporary short stories from
the Danish Arts Council.(2009)