Originally from Minnesota, Regan Mies is currently based in Hamburg, Germany, where she teaches English, writes, and translates with the support of a Fulbright grant. She is also a jury advisor and researcher with New Books in German, a group promoting English-language publication of contemporary German work. After graduating with a BA in political science and German from Columbia University, Regan worked as an editorial assistant with the imprints The Overlook Press, Abrams Press, and Cernunnos at Abrams Books in New York. Her reviews and interviews have appeared in the Cleveland Review of Books, the Chicago Review of Books, and Necessary Fiction, and her short fiction and translations have appeared in Vol.1 Brooklyn, the Asymptote blog, No Man’s Land, On the Seawall, and elsewhere.