Karen Emmerich is a translator of modern Greek literature and an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She has translated over twenty books from Greek, and her translation awards include the National Translation Award for Ersi Sotiropoulos’s What’s Left of the Night, the Best Translated Book Award for Eleni Vakalo’s Beyond Lyricism, and the PEN Poetry in Translation Award for Yannis Ritsos’s Diaries of Exile (co-translated with Edmund Keeley). Emmerich is also the author of Literary Translation and the Making of Originals. She lives in Brooklyn.