Cherry Red Summer (Emely and Elyas Book 1) (37 page)

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rik J. Macki worked as a cherry orchard tour guide, copy editor, Web developer, and German and French teacher before settling into his translation career. Becoming a translator was probably inevitable, as he has collected grammars, dictionaries, and language-learning books since childhood—and to this day is not above diagramming sentences when duty so calls. A former resident of Cologne and Münster, Germany, and of Tours, France, he did his graduate work in Germanics and comparative syntax. He now translates books for adults and children full time and has translated works by Kerstin Gier, Mirjam Pressler, Jutta Profijt, and Sara Blædel, among others. He works from his home in Seattle, where he lives with his family and their black Lab, Zephyr.