Translator of poetry and literary fiction. Recipient of the Danish Arts Foundation’s Young Artistic Elite Fellowship as well as the National Translation Award in Poetry for her English translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Third-Millennium Heart.
Katrine Øgaard Jensen is a recipient of several fellowships and awards for her writing and translations, including the Danish Arts Foundation’s Young Artistic Elite Fellowship in 2020 as well as the 2018 National Translation Award in Poetry for her translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Third-Millennium Heart (Broken Dimanche Press/Action Books 2017). Her translation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Outgoing Vessel (Action Books 2021) was a finalist for the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Her latest translation, My Jewel Box by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, was published by Action Books in 2022. She teaches creative writing and literary translation at Columbia University, where she served as Acting Director of LTAC (Literary Translation at Columbia) from 2019-2020.
