Author of MATISSE: THE BOOKS (Thames & Hudson / University of Chicago Press, 2020), an acclaimed study of the livres d’artiste of Henri Matisse. My writing and translations feature in Asymptote and the Times Literary Supplement.

Translator of 16 novels from French: Antoine Laurain, Serge Joncour, Gabrielle Wittkop, Laetitia Colombani, Louise Mey, Jean Rolin, Denis Thériault… My work has received three French Voices / Albertine translation awards, and been shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award, the Crime Writers Association International Dagger, the Jan Michalski Award for Literature and the Edward Stanford Award for Fiction With a Sense of Place.   

Drawing on my academic background in art history, I translate for leading French museums, galleries and cultural institutions. Clients past and present include the Louvre, Centre Pompidou Paris & Metz, the Venice and Lyon Biennales, Villa Médicis, Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée Rodin, the Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

As a former editor and writer for Condé Nast, Time Out Paris, IPC Magazines, Eyewitness Guides, BBC Enterprises and others, I also translate travel guides and transcreate marketing texts for French luxury houses.

I hold an MPhil. in poetry translation and art history from the University of London Institute in Paris, and lead translation workshops (from French – University of Bristol, University of Cardiff) to explore the connecting threads between my literary and ‘commercial’ translation practice, based on texts sampled as a snapshot of  recent work. 

When not translating, writing or teaching I can be found mindfully ironing, bed-making and towel-folding as a holiday let landlady at home on the edge of Fontainebleau forest. Fellow wordsmiths are warmly invited to arrange a creative retreat.