Kathleen Maris Paltrineri is a poet and literary translator. Her translation of Norwegian poet Kristin Berget’s og når det blir lyst blir det helt fantastisk is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. She has taught Literary Translation, Creative Writing, and Literature at the University of Iowa; Creative Writing at Cornell College; and English as a Second Language at the University of New Hampshire. She is currently the coordinator of the University of Iowa’s Center for Translation and Global Literacy.