Biography
Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright translates texts of contemporary German authors, especially Lyric poetry, into English. In 1996 she got a MFA for literary translation at the University of Arkansas. From September 1994 till July 1995 during an academic year in Berlin she had been translating, amongst others, the German-Turkish poets Zafer Şenocak and Zehra Çırak. After that she worked as a lecturer in Arkansas, and gave seminars at the Boston University and at the Oberlin College. Together with Zafer Şenocak she had bilingual readings in Memphis, New York City, Cambridge, San Francisco und Los Angeles. She received several awards and research fellowships like NEA and ALTA. Her translations appear in Agni, Slope, Seneca Review, Another Chicago Magazine and in the online magazine Perihelion.
In 1999 Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright married Franz Wright, poet and Pulitzer Prize winner of 2004. They live in Waltham, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright works at a medical translation agency in Boston.
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