Monika Cassel was raised bilingual in the United States and Germany. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bennington Review, Cincinnati Review, The Georgia Review, Guesthouse, and Poetry Northwest, among others. Her translation from German of Portolan by Daniela Danz is forthcoming 2027 from Georgia Review Books. Monika’s translations been awarded the 2024 John Fredrick Nims Memorial Prize from the Poetry Foundation and featured in Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations 2025 and on Poetry Daily. Individual translations from German have been published in journals such as AGNI, Poetry Magazine, The Adroit Journal, The Georgia Review, and Orion. She received a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan, writing about 19th-century women poets and translators in England, Germany, and the United States. She was a founding faculty member of New Mexico School for the Arts, a statewide public arts high school in Santa Fe, NM, where the Lannan Foundation supported her efforts to develop and launch the school’s creative writing curriculum. She holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College and is an assistant poetry editor for Four Way Review.