​​​​​Jamie Richards    translator &c

Jamie Richards is a literary translator from Italian, with occasional forays into other languages. Born and raised in the Los Angeles area, she earned her BA in English from Scripps College, with a semester's study at Temple University, Rome, and went on to complete an MFA in literary translation at the University of Iowa and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Oregon. She is the recipient of a 2021 NEA translation grant to translate the neglected Italian classic, Dolores Prato's Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno, which is still in the works, alongside a number of other projects. She was the Spring 2023 translator-in-residence at the University of Iowa, and she was a judge for the 2023 Italian Prose in Translation Award. In 2024, her translation of Marosia Castaldi's The Hunger of Women was longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, shortlisted for the Italian Prose in Translation Award, and won the National Translation Award in Prose. She is currently based in Southern California after many years in Milan.