Jennifer Hayashida

Jennifer Hayashida is a poet, translator and artist based in Stockholm. She earned her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. She is currently a PhD candidate in artistic research at HDK-Valand, Academy of Art & Design at Gothenburg University. She is the author of A Machine Wrote This Song (Gramma Poetry/Black Ocean, 2018) and the chapbook Översättaren som arkiv/Arkiv som översätter (Autor, 2020), while her translations between Swedish and English include collections by Don Mee Choi, Iman Mohammed, Kim Hyesoon and Athena Farrokhzad. Her scholarly and creative work has been published in journals such as Women’s Studies Quarterly, Women & Performance, Fence and Paletten, and she has exhibited at venues including The Vera List Center for Art & Politics, The New Museum and Bildmuseet.