Jill Timbers

Jill Timbers is a professional Finnish-English translator. Her translation of Otto and the Secret Light of Christmas, by Nora and Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin, was published in 2016. More literary translations have appeared in anthologies and journals, including Helsinki Noir, With Signs and Wonders, and Connecting Souls. Timbers lives in Illinois with her Finnish husband.

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