Tess Lewis is a writer and translator from French and German. Her translations include works by Walter Benjamin, Ingeborg Bachmann, Peter Handke, and Montaigne. She has been awarded grants from PEN and the NEA, the Austrian Cultural Forum NY Translation Prize, and the PEN Translation Prize. A Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, she was awarded the 2023 Friedrich Ulfers Prize, which recognizes those who ‘champion the advancement of German-language literature in the US.’
She is an advisory editor for The Hudson Review and curator of the Festival Neue Literature, New York City’s only German-language literature festival.