Her essays have appeared in Granta, the London Review of Books, Frieze, Art Review, Harper’s, Aperture, Tate Etc, and the New York Times, where she has profiled artists like Cornelia Parker and Sutapa Biswas, and she has contributed to catalogues for artists including Sarah Lucas, Lubaina Himid, Vlatka Horvat, Hannah Starkey, and Caroline Walker. She is also an award-winning translator, most recently of Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables; upcoming translations include Constance Debré’s Nom and Marie-Laure Bernadec’s biography of Louise Bourgeois. Her next book, a novel entitled Scaffolding, will be published by Chatto & Windus in June 2024. She lives in London. 

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• In Conversation with Flavia Frigeri and Lauren Elkin