Ida Hattemer-Higgins is an MFA candidate in literary translation at the University of Iowa, where she translates prose, poetry, and literary theory from German, French, Swedish, and Chinese, and teaches the undergraduate translation workshop. She is also a novelist published by Alfred A. Knopf in the US and Faber & Faber in the UK. Her translation of A Tale from the Coast by Birgitta Trotzig, a classic of Swedish modernism first released in 1961, is forthcoming from Archipelago Books.