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Photo © Marilya Veteto
Reese
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Marilya Veteto Reese is Professor of German
at Northern Arizona University. In the course of her doctoral work in
the late 1980's under the supervision of A. Leslie Willson, co-founder
of ALTA (American Literary Translators' Association) Reese was among the
first U.S. Germanists to interview and write about Turkish-German writers.
The recipient of Fulbright, DAAD, and Goethe Institut support,
Reese has worked with, translated, and published works by Zehra Çirak,
Ingeborg Drewitz, Anant Kumar, Kemal Kurt, Arno Reinfrank, Anant Kumar,
and many other contemporary German authors. She is currently translating
her first English-to-German novel, Putrefaction Live, a coming
of age novel by Flagstaff author Warren Perkins about an Anglo-Navajo
youth in a death metal band on a reservation. Her translation idol is
Anthea Bell. Reese is also proofer of the forthcoming University of Nebraska
Press volumes of Isabelle Eberhardt memoirs translated by K. Melissa Marcus.
(2011)