Poet nominated for the Pushcart Prize, author of glint (Milk & Cake Press) and translator of Catalan, French and Spanish, awarded an NEA Fellowship for the translation of "Innombrable" (Stendhal Books, 2020) by the Catalan poet Anna Gual. She has also studied and worked in Europe and Latin America including achieving a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Translation & Intercultural Studies from l'Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona under the direction of Poet, Translator and Professor Emeritus, Francesc Parcerisas. Dissertation: “First Translations of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” into Catalan, French and Spanish: the Special Case of Cebrià Montoliu". Other professional experiences include teaching, working with NGOs, UNESCO and UN-NY.

“Innonmbrable”, as “Unnameable”, will be published by Zephyr Press in fall 2025. 

AKaiser is currently in the process of working on her own collections, "SHE/D" and “March in Iceland”. At Faberllull-Olot (residency January 2024), she made progress with her manuscript tongue.s and with the translation of Anna Gual's most recent book, Les ocultacions (Proa, 2023). She has also begun translating Lola Anglada, Toni R. Juncosa, Cebrià Montoliu and Josep Pla on Gaudí.

At Bloomsday 2023, Anna Gual and AKaiser presented their work at Trinity College Dublin. In 2020, 2023 and 2024, they participated in the Sant Jordi Festival NYC/USA. AKaiser also shared her multilingual project “Horse Behavior” and her translations of the aforementioned urban planner and translator of Ruskin, Emerson, Shakespeare and Whitman, Cebrià Montoliu.

Her work has been supported by Millay Arts (NY), NES Artist Residency (Skagaströnd), Write On, Door County (WI) and Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris). Recent publication of poems, translations and photographs appear in Allium, Amsterdam Quarterly, Circumference, Four Way Review, Ginosko, Harvard Review, Hyperion, Modern Poetry in Translation, POETRY and Poetry International.

Email: ak@akaiser.org

Genre: Poetry