Lara Norgaard is an editor, essayist, and literary translator from Colorado. After graduating from Princeton University in 2017, she served as Editor-at-Large in Brazil for Asymptote Journal and directed Artememoria, a free-access arts magazine focused on the memory of Brazil’s civil-military dictatorship. Her nonfiction and translations can be found in publications such as the Mekong Review, the Jakarta Post, Asymptote Journal, Peixe-elétrico, and Agência Pública. Currently, she is a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar in Jakarta, Indonesia and will begin her Ph.D. in comparative literature at Harvard University in September 2020.