Meg Matich is a poet and translator of many books from Icelandic, German, and Danish in Reykjavik, Iceland. Her translations have received praise from The New York Times, Oprah, Publisher’s Weekly, Vulture, and others. She’s received support for her work from PEN America, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Commission. Her most recent work, the selected short stories of mid-century modernist-feminist Ásta Sigurðardóttir, was published by Nordisk Books in November 2023 and her translation of two collections of short stories by Svava Jakobsdóttir is forthcoming from Open Letter/Deep Vellum in late 2025. She’s currently at work on an anthology of poetry by Sjón, edited with the author, with funding from the NEA. She is the author of one chapbook, Cold (Eulalia Books 2022) and one in-progress novel-in-verse, Sealskin.
Her website is www.meglenska.is