Jennifer Hayashida is a poet, translator, and artist. She was born in Oakland, CA, and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden. She earned her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Her translations from the Swedish include work by Ida Börjel, Athena Farrokzhad, and Fredrik Nyberg. She is the recipient of awards from the New York Foundation of the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She serves on the board of the Asian American Writers Workshop.
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