Jennifer Russell

Jennifer Russell is a translator of fiction and poetry by Danish writers, including Tove Ditlevsen, Solvej Balle, and Olga Ravn. With Sophia Hersi Smith, Russell translated Ditlevsen’s There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025), the first poetry collection by Ditlevsen to be published in English. 

Russell was the recipient of the 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, the winner of the 2020 American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize for All the Birds in the Sky [Alle himlens fugle] by Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild, co-translated with Hersi Smith, and winner of the 2019 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation for the short story “Birdland” by Ursula Scavenius.

Russell lives in Copenhagen.