Janet Hendrickson

Janet Hendrickson is a translator of Spanish and Portuguese. Her translations include Mario Ortiz’s Language and Literature Notebooks, slated for publication with Ugly Duckling Presse; Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language (New Directions, 2019); and The Future is Not Ours (Open Letter, 2012), edited by Diego Trelles Paz.

For Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language (New Directions, 2019), an experimental translation that turns a 1611 dictionary by Sebastián de Covarrubias into a series of prose poems, Hendrickson was long-listed for a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. 

Hendrickson is a clinical assistant professor of liberal studies at New York University where she teaches writing and translation. She lives in New York City.