Nedra Eileen Bickham is a translator, musician, teacher, and explorer of the unique coexistence of language and music. Her translations of short stories by the German author Julia Franck and poems by Andreas Randow have appeared, respectively, in Passport: The Arkansas Review of Literary Translation and Perihelion Poetry Journal. She also has a translation of Julia Franck’s short story “Streuselschnecke” forthcoming in the journal Absinthe: New European Writing in Fall 2007. In September 2007, she will begin working on her M.A. degree in German Literature at Tufts University in Boston, MA. (2007)