Nathanaël

• Name — Nathanaël • Birth Name — Nathalie Stephens • Born — 1970 • Birthplace — Montreal, Quebec • Occupation — writer, translator, educator • Notable Works —...s'arrête? Je (2007), Underground (1999)

In 1970 Nathanaël was born as Nathalie Stephens in Montreal. She studied Literature at the Lumière University Lyon 2 and the York University, Toronto. Since 2002 she is member of the Québec Union of Writers. She teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Furthermore, she is a contributing editor to the French online magazine Recours au poème and the American magazine Aufgabe. Nathanaël writes intergenre, poetry, prose, and essays — in English and French — which have been translated into Bulgarian, Basque, Greek, Portuguese, Slovenian and Spanish. Her book Underground was finalist for a Grand Prix du Salon du livre de Toronto in 2000. L'injure was shortlisted for a Prix Trillium and the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2005....s'arrête? Je won the Prix Alain-Grandbois in 2008. Nathanaël has translated John Keene, Trish Salah, Reginald Gibbons, Bhanu Kapil, R. M. Vaughan et al. into French and Hervé Guibert, Danielle Collobert, Hilda Hilst, Édouard Glissant and Catherine Mavrikakis into English. Her translation of Danielle Collobert's novel Murder was shortlisted for a Best Translated Book Award 2014. She has been awarded with fellowships from the PEN American Center (2012) and the Centre national du livre de France (2013) for her translation of Hervé Guibert's The Mausoleum of Lovers.

• Édouard Glissant, Sun of Consciousness. New York: Nightboat, 2020. • Hervé Guibert, The Mausoleum of Lovers Journals 1976–1991. New York: Nightboat 2014,. • Danielle Collobert, Murder. New York: Litmus Press, 2013. • Hilda Hilst, The Obscene Madame D. New York: Nightboat, 2014 (with Rachel Gontijo Araújo). • Édouard Glissant, Poetic Intention. New York: Nightboat, 2010. • Catherine Mavrikakis, Flowers of Spit. BookThug, 2011. • Catherine Mavrikakis, A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning. Coach House, 2004.