Aimee Chor
Translations
Es beginnt: Trauerrefrain (So the Day Begins: Grief Refrain) by Anja Utler, co-translated with Kurt Beals
Finalist for Stephen Mitchell Prize, Green Linden Press
- Poems 2026 Modern Poetry in Translation, No. 1, “At the Gate of Exile: Focus on Archives” (print)
- “So the Day Begins (Grief Refrain)” 2026 Epiphany, Issue 36, “Neighbors” (print)
- Ten poems 2026 World Poetry Review, Issue Thirteen, April
- Excerpts from So the Day Begins: Grief Refrain 2026 Another Chicago Magazine, January. Nominated for Best of the Net
- Poems from So the Day Begins: Grief Refrain 2026 On the Seawall, Literature in Translation, January
Im Glasberg (In the Glass Mountain) by Nadja Küchenmeister
- Selected poems 2025 The Opposite of Seduction: New Poetry in German, edited by Alexander Kappe, Nicola Thomas and Jana Maria Weiß, Shearsman Books
- “my father’s house” 2024 Image Journal 122
- “bright center i–v” 2024 Circumference 12
- “i remember”, “this is our goodbye”, “rage” 2024 Volume, vol. 4, issue 1
- “black laundry”, “feathers and planets” 2023 The Paris Review 246, Winter
- “on a monday morning”, “early moon”, “in the mirror”, “the dawdling at the side of small streets” 2023 AzonaL 7
- “melting point” 2023 The Apple Valley Review 18:22, Fall. Nominated for Best of the Net
- “in the pericardium” 2023 MAYDAY, October
- “between the branches”, “in the dream you carried me”, “when i saw you lying there” 2023 ballast I.4
- “in the glass mountain”, “walk through the district”, “the horse’s step”, “vlahia”, “it begins where it ends” 2023 mercury firs 3
- “at the base”, “after the conversations”, “scorpion or spider” 2023 Four Way Review 27
- “i am light”, “in the train” 2023 Sepia, vol. 8
Prose
- “Chemistry” Luca Kieser, “Chemie.” Finalist for the Anne Frydman Translation Prize, The Hopkins Review
- “The Kiss of Sentze” Adalbert Stifter, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, vol. 6
Writing
- “Broth” 2023 Poem, Wild Roof Journal 23, September
- “The Godly Women of Instagram” 2021 Essay, Religion Dispatches, January
About
I read, write, and translate (German to English) in Seattle, where I live with my family.
Education
- Doctoral student, Religion 2000–2010 The University of Chicago. Dissertation: Ernst Troeltsch, Theology, and German National Identity, 1900–1923
- M.A., Religion 1999 The University of Chicago
- B.A., Religion, magna cum laude 1995 Carleton College
Awards
- Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship 2003–2004 University of Munich, Germany
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship 1997–1998 The University of Chicago
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Fellowship 1995–1996 University of Tübingen, Germany
Contact
Instagram: @rosydotes