Lynn E. Palermo

Lynn E. Palermo is a literary and academic translator. Her translation of Humus by Fabienne Kanor (University of Virginia Press, 2020) was a finalist for the 2021 National Translation Award. She received a 2018 NEA Translation Grant and a 2016 French Voices Award (with Catherine Dent). Shorter translations have appeared in World Literature Today, Exchanges, and the Kenyon Review Online. Palermo is on faculty in the French Studies department at Susquehanna University and does volunteer translation for UN-affiliated organizations.