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Ida Börjel is a poet born in Lund, Sweden. For her books of poetry, including Skåneradio (Radio Scania), Konsumentköplagen: juris lyrik (The Consumer’s Purchase Law: Juridical Lyricisms), and MA, she has been awarded several prestigious prizes in Sweden. Currently, she divides her time between Röstånga and elsewhere, and works with the City Fables Group at Malmö University, exploring neoliberalist language practice and the ways in which stories about life in contemporary cities are negotiated, remediated, and circulated. Together with Jennifer Hayashida (US), she has translated Solmaz Sharif’s poetry collection Look (2017) into Swedish. Ida Börjel’s poetry has been translated into nineteen languages. The English chapbook version of her Miximum Ca’Canny the Sabotage Manuals is free to download from the Commune Editions website.

Jennifer Hayashida is a poet, translator, and visual artist. She is the recipient of awards from, among others, the New York Foundation for the Arts, PEN, the Jerome Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. She is most recently the translator, from the Swedish, of Ida Börjel’s Miximum Ca’Canny the Sabotage Manuals (Commune Editions, 2016), Athena Farrokhzad’s White Blight (Argos Books, 2015), and Karl Larsson’s Form/Force (Black Square Editions, 2015). Previous translations include Fredrik Nyberg’s A Different Practice (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007) and Eva Sjödin’s Inner China (Litmus Press, 2005). Her award-winning poetry and translations have been published widely in the US, and her collaborations in film/video have been exhibited in the US and abroad, including the Centre Pompidou, the Flaherty Film Seminar, the New Museum, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. She serves on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.