Sarah
Tolley lives in Edinburgh, where she spends far too much time at
the computer - it's the translator's malaise. Her first published poetry
translations were in a book called History of Old Age, by Georges
Minois, and since then she has always enjoyed translating poetry. Her
job as online tutor for the Open University, teaching a course on the
European Union, has been rather short of poetry, and she is grateful to
no man's land for inviting her to mediate between two poets, one from
Shetland, and the other from Swabia, as part of the St Andrews poetry
festival.