EDITORIAL BOARD
EDITORS
Susan Thorne
Bradley Schmidt
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2020 GUEST POETRY EDITOR
Kurt Beals
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Geoff Howes
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Maria Snyder
Julie Winter
EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS
Alan Robinson
Ingo Stoehr
GUEST POETRY EDITORS EMERITUS /A
2019: Karen Leeder
2018: Steph Morris
2017: Jen Calleja
2016: Alexander Booth
EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE
Elisabeth Lauffer
FOUNDING EDITORS
Isabel Fargo Cole
Katy Derbyshire
OUR 2020 GUEST POETRY EDITOR
No Man’s Land is proud to announce the appointment of Kurt Beals as our Editor for poetry translations for the 15th issue (2020).
Kurt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis, and an active translator of German literature into English.
He has translated works by Anja Utler, Regina Ullmann, Reiner Stach, and Jenny Erpenbeck, among others. His translation of Anja Utler’s engulf–enkindle was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry and the Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation (2011); for Regina Ullmann’s The Country Road he received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant (2014). He also received the first ever German Book Office Translation Prize (2012).
He is currently translating Jenny Erpenbeck’s Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces.