Sarah Timmer Harvey is a translator and writer currently based in Woodstock, New York.

Sarah Timmer Harvey is a translator and writer currently based in Woodstock, New York. She holds an MFA from Columbia University in New York and a BA from Southern Cross University. Reconstruction, their translation of stories written by the Dutch-Surinamese writer Karin Amatmoekrim was published by Strangers Press in 2020 as part of their Verzet! series, and their translation of Thistle by Nadia de Vries will be published by The New Menard Press in 2024. Sarah’s translations of Dutch-language poetry and prose have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Asymptote, Gulf Coast Journal, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Born in Australia, she lived and worked in the Netherlands for 14 years before moving to New York City in 2013.

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What I'd Rather Not Think About
Blue book cover of What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma with a colour photograph of a hanging pink jumper.

What I'd Rather Not Think About

By
Jente Posthuma
Translated by
Sarah Timmer Harvey
Published by
Scribe UK
A deeply moving exploration of grief, told in brief, precise vignettes and full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour. Translated from Dutch by Sarah Timmer Harvey.