K.E. Semmel is a writer and translator. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in
Ontario Review, Lithub, The Writer’s Chronicle, The Southern Review, The Millions, HuffPost, Washington Post, and elsewhere. His translations include novels by, among others, Naja Marie Aidt, Karin Fossum, and Jussi Adler Olsen. His latest translation is Simon Fruelund’s novella
Civil Twilight (Spuyten Duyvil; ’24). He is a former Literary Translation Fellow from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Book of Losman (SFWP) is his debut novel. Find him online at
kesemmel.com.
