Jeanne Bonner is a writer, journalist and literary translator whose work has been published by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, American Scholar, Catapult, Marketplace, the Kenyon Review, NPR and CNN. She is the translator of This Darkness Will Never End, a classic short story collection by transnational Italian writer, Edith Bruck, which was published by Paul Dry Books. Jeanne won the 2018 PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian literature for her translation-in-progress of Mariateresa Di Lascia’s coming-of-age novel, Passaggio in Ombra. She was a short-term fellow in 2021 and 2022 at the New York Public Library where she conducted comparative translation research of works in Italian by women writers who survived the Holocaust. Her research interests include modern and contemporary works by Italian women writers, and in particular 20th century Italian women authors who have been overlooked and whose work hasn’t been translated into English. She studied Italian literature at Wesleyan University and has an MFA in Writing from Bennington College as well as an MA in Italian Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of Connecticut.