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Jeanne Bonner is a writer, editor, literary translator and writing instructor. Paul Dry Books will publish her translation of Edith Bruck's first short story collection, This Darkness Will Never End, in April of 2025. She studied Italian at Wesleyan University and has an MFA in Writing from Bennington College as well as an MA in Italian Literature from the University of Connecticut. In literary translation, she focuses on overlooked Italian women writers.
Her honors include:
*An NEA Literature grant in translation
*The PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature
*A short-term fellowship at the New York Public Library
*The Hunger Mountain Translation Prize
Her translations have appeared in Asymptote Journal, Hunger Mountain, The American Scholar, Consequence and the Kenyon Review. Read "Silvia," a story that will appear in This Darkness Will Never End, here at Hunger Mountain, which is published by the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Learn more about This Darkness Will Never End here (including how to order).
She is a contract editor for CNN as well as an essayist. Her reporting and personal essays have appeared in:
*The New York Times
*The Boston Globe
*The American Scholar
*Catapult
*Longreads
*Brevity
*CNN
She has taught writing, literature and Italian courses at the college level, and has been an instructor at Wesleyan University, the University of Connecticut and the University of Hartford.