Zaia
Alexander is a writer and literary translator living in Los Angeles
and Berlin. Her publications include Wende Kids: A New Generation of
German Authors and "Primo Levi and Translation" in the Cambridge
Companion to Primo Levi. Her translations include the novels Snowed Under
(Red Hen Press) and Colder Layers of Air (forthcoming) by Antje Rávic
Strubel and numerous short story translations which have been anthologized
widely. She holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literature from UCLA,
and was formerly Director of Programs at the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades.
In 2008, she received a Lannan Literary Residency in Marfa, Texas, and was
Chair of the PEN Center USA Translation Jury. She is recipient of a Goethe-Institut
Translation Grant and a Kurt and Helen Wolff Translation Grant. (2008)
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