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poetry in action #58
3 poems by Franziska Füchsl
Translated by Jace Brittain
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Franziska Füchsl was born 1991 in Putzleinsdorf, Austria and now lives in Vienna and Kiel at the Baltic Sea. Füchsl is a writer, translator and typesetter, coined by her family’s metal workshop for machine manufacturing. She’s a member of Versatorium, an association for poems and translation which houses a small letterpress workshop, and she co-edits the essay magazine Triëdere. Füchsl is the author of five books, including her debut rätsel in grosser schrift (Edition Mosaik 2019), the bilingual poem My Haarschwund (Sampson Low 2020), and Am Rande der Müh (Edition Thanhäuser 2026) which was awarded the German Prize for Naturing Writing.
Jace Brittain is the author of Cura (forthcoming from Lavender Ink 2027) and the experimental novel Sorcererer (Schism 2022), and they are the editor of the small press Carrion Bloom Books. Their writing and translations have been featured in Annulet, Your Impossible Voice, Mercury Firs, and elsewhere. They live in Louisiana where they teach creative writing and insect literature at Nicholls State University and serve as a director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival.