Birth of a Bridge

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

JESSICA MOORE is an author and a translator. She is a former Lannan writer-in-residence and winner of a PEN America Translation Award for her translation of Turkana Boy, the poetic novel by Jean-François Beauchemin. Jessica’s first collection of poems, Everything, now, was published with Brick Books in 2012. She is a member of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada and worked as the secretary in their Montreal office while completing her master’s in translation studies. She is also a songwriter — her debut album, Beautiful in Red, was released in 2013. She embarks on frequent adventures and uses her hometown of Toronto as an anchor.