Nathan Fields was born in Oceanside, California is 1977 and studied Literature at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, writing at California State University San Marcos, and Anglophone Studies at Metropolitan University in Prague. Since 2002, he has translated widely from Czech, both fiction and non-fiction. His translation of Marek Šindelka’s novel Chyba (Aberrant) was selected by World Literature Today as one of the best translations of 2017. He is an editor of the literary magazine Project Plume.
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