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Katrine Øgaard Jensen

Photograph of translator from Danish Katrine Øgaard Jensen

Contributor

Katrine Øgaard Jensen

Denmark

Katrine Øgaard Jensen is the author of Ancient Algorithms (Sarabande Books, 2025), a collaborative book of poems with Baba Badji, CAConrad, Paul Cunningham, Aditi Machado, Sawako Nakayasu, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen. Øgaard Jensen’s translations include My Jewel Box (Action Books, 2022) by Andkjær Olsen. A recipient of several fellowships and awards, including the National Translation Award in Poetry, she lives in Kingston, New York.

Articles by Katrine Øgaard Jensen

Water droplets caught in a large spiderweb

Adrian Tync, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Arachnoscientific Salvation

By Katrine Øgaard Jensen

a sensation of intricate webs / soft, possibly smooth, and heavy

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WWB Team Picks: Favorite and Future Reads of 2015/2016

By Katrine Øgaard Jensen

Because it’s the season for end-of-year lists, and because 2015 has been yet another year of authors in translation hacking the system and gaining terrain in mainstream media outlets (Lispector,…

After Inger Christensen: Humans, Plants, and Planets in New Danish Poetry

By Katrine Øgaard Jensen

So what happens next in Danish translation?

from “Third-Millennium Heart”

By Ursula Andkjær Olsen

I will remain unwritten.

Translated from Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen

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The Translator Relay: Amaia Gabantxo

By Katrine Øgaard Jensen

Our “Translator Relay” series features a new interview each month. This month's translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different, sixth question. For November's installment,…