Jamie Lee Searle is a literary translator from German, and a co-founder of the Emerging Translators Network. Since completing an MA in Anglo-German Cultural Relations, she has published over 15 translations of titles by contemporary German-language authors. She is currently working on Anna Kim’s Die Grosse Heimkehr for Portobello Books. Recipient of a BCLT Mentorship in 2011, she has since been awarded residencies at Writers Omi/Ledig House, New York, and by the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur in Vienna.