Kristen
Herbert

Kristen Herbert (1995, United States) is a writer and translator from the Chicago area. Her translations of contemporary Hungarian literature have been published in New Delta Review, Waxwing, Newfound, Asymptote, and Columbia Journal Online. She also co-founded and edited the bilingual Hungarian-English print journal The Penny Truth. Kristen is currently an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of California-Riverside, and a Community of Writers Workshop alum.

Photograph © Kristen Herbert

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