I’m a writer, translator and literary scholar living in New York City. I was born and raised in Tirana, Albania. My writing, poetry, translations and research have been published in various venues. I hold a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, with a certificate in Critical Translation Studies. I research in, and translate from, Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Italian. I recently completed a fellowship at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, researching the memory of the Roma Holocaust/Genocide in Albania and Kosovo.

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The background photographs on this website are ones I took of an embroidery piece by my grandmother, left unfinished during WWII.