Rachel Britton is a writer and translator from New York, based in Iceland. She holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the State University of New York at Geneseo and is pursuing an MA in Translation Studies at the University of Iceland. She has received support from the Fulbright Commission, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, and the Icelandic Literature Center.

Her translation from Icelandic of Brynja Hjálmsdóttir’s poetry book A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder (Circumference Books, 2024) received the 2023 ASF Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize for a first translation. Her translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Asymptote, Scandinavian Review, and elsewhere.

Original poems and work have been published in Salt Hill, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere.