Jake Schneider

Jake Schneider, born in 1988, is a writer, translator, and New Jersey native. After studying creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, in 2012 he received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship—the youngest recipient to date—to translate Fragmented Waters by Ron Winkler (Shearsman Books) and has lived in Berlin ever since. His literary translations have appeared in Words Without Borders, Modern Poetry in Translation, Circumference, Washington Square, the Massachusetts Review, the Boston Review, and the Chicago Review, alongside more exotic cameos at a Carnegie Hall concert, several literary magic shows, and the 2015 Venice Art Biennale. He is the editor in chief of SAND, Berlin’s English literary journal.