Katrine Øgaard Jensen

Katrine Øgaard Jensen is a poet and translator of Danish literature. She is the author of Ancient Algorithms (Sarabande Books, 2025), a collaborative book of poems with Baba Badji, CAConrad, Paul Cunningham, Aditi Machado, Sawako Nakayasu, and Ursula Andkjær Olsen. A recipient of several fellowships and awards—including the National Translation Award in Poetry, the Kenyon Review’s Peter Taylor Fellowship, the Danish Arts Foundation’s Young Artistic Elite Fellowship, and Kjeld Elfelt’s Memorial Grant from the Danish Translators’ Association—her translations include Third-Millennium Heart (Action Books, 2017), Outgoing Vessel (Action Books, 2021), and My Jewel Box (Action Books, 2022), all by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, as well as To The Most Beautiful by Mette Moestrup (co•im•press, 2024). Previously, she taught Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Columbia University, where she also served as Acting Director of Literary Translation at Columbia (LTAC). Jensen currently serves as Executive Director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).