Monika Cassel was raised bilingual in the United States and Germany. Her translations have appeared in POETRY Magazine, Guernica, Asymptote, Harvard Review Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, EuropeNow, and STILL, and her poetry has appeared in The Laurel Review and Phoebe Journal. She was a recipient of a 2016 American Literary Translators Association Conference travel fellowship and is the winner of the 2015 Venture Poetry Award; her poetry pamphlet is forthcoming from flipped eye publishing. She lives in Portland, OR and teaches German at Oregon State University.