Suzanne McQuade

Suzanne McQuade is a translator, writer, editor, and photographer living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She learned Latvian in 1994 as an exchange student in Riga, and began translating Latvian fiction over subsequent years as a means of maintaining her connection to both the language and the culture of Latvia. She is the translator of Inga Žolude's novel Warm Earth as well as Žolude's award-winning collection of short stories, A Solace For Adam's Tree. She has also translated various short pieces and excerpts from Inga Ābele, Jānis Ivars Stradiņš, Imants Ziedonis, Ieva Melgalve, and Elizabete Eglīte.