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Volume VI, Fall 2011
About Our Authors
Daniel Browning '14 is a sophomore who has enjoyed this opportunity to translate. He is currently undecided as to his major, although he is certain that it will be on the Humanities and Social Sciences side of the academic spectrum.
Mary Jean Chan '12 was born and raised in Hong Kong. She first began penning poetry as a freshman in college, inspired by the film Dead Poets Society. In 2009, Mary Jean’s poem In Search of Paradise Lost won a High Distinction Award in the Tom Howard / John H. Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Tom Howard Books. Now a senior at Swarthmore College, Mary Jean looks forward to exploring the terrain of political poetry given her academic interests in Political Science and English Literature.
Reed Coke '13 is a junior Linguistics and Computer Science double major. He has recently decided to pursue his interest in natural language processing instead. He has taught French in the foreign language program at Swarthmore-Rutledge School several times over the past two years. His students are always full of surprises and he hopes that by sharing this story, he can encourage others to help spread the joy of learning a new language.
Alex Hollender '11 is a senior, studying Art History and Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He grew up between Vermont and Manhattan and for the past three years has been managing the clothing company Create Build Destroy (createbuilddestroy.com) with two friends.
Marion Faber is an emerita professor of German language and literature at Swarthmore College, who has been auditing classes in the Japanese section for the last two years.
Sibelan Forrester is Professor of Russian at Swarthmore College. She has published translations of prose and poetry from Russian and Croatian, and of prose from Serbian.
Will Gardner is associate professor of Japanese language, literature, and film at Swarthmore College.
Nick Gettino '13 is an English literature major and Psychology minor. He is especially interested in contemporary American poetry.
Billy Hamilton-Levi, '13 is a Linguistics major.
Ben Hattem, '12 is an English literature major and a Sociology and Anthropology minor.
David Lucas Hinojosa, '12 is a Japanese special major and computer science minor.
Joanie Jean, '11 is a Biology and Japanese double major. Her interests include Japanese pop culture, Korean dramas, fencing, and fly husbandry.
Susanna Mitro, '11 is a Biology major, Psychology and Japanese double minor. She also enjoys playing the cello.
Frank Mondelli, '14 is a sophomore with interests in translation, linguistics, Japanese, and cognitive science.
Nicholas Jackson Pietsch, '13 is a Japanese and Computer Science double major. He was a very prolific writer of haiku for English class in the second grade.
James Preimesberger, '11 is a senior Japanese special major, so it is no surprise that you would find him contributing some Japanese poetry! He is still trying to figure out what he will be doing with his degree in the next couple of months.
Alice Wong, '13 is a Chemistry major and Japanese minor. She became interested in Japanese language in High School. Since then, her interests in Japan have expanded to include poetry and contemporary culture.
James Wright (JW) '13.
Yan Zlatopolsky (1947-2006) lived in Kyïv (Ukraine), until 1996, when he emigrated to Germany. For many years he was a director at a studio for popular science films. After he met Iryna, the couple wrote plays for children and parable-like short stories (in Russian). He began writing poetry late in life, after he moved to Germany, and his poems are strongly original, not reminiscent of traditional Russian poetry.
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