Annelise Finegan Wasmoen

Annelise Finegan Wasmoen is an editor and translator currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. She has worked for academic and textbook publishers as an acquisitions editor, publishing coordinator, copy editor, and project manager. Her translations include short stories and essays by authors such as Jiang Yun, Lu Min, and Wang Meng. The Last Lover by Can Xue—her first book-length translation—was voted The Independent’s Book of the Year 2014, was longlisted for The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015, and won the Best Translated Book Award 2015.