I’m an American-born essayist, fiction writer and translator in Berlin, Germany. Selected publications here. For writing inquiries, please contact jane[dot]yager[at]gmail[dot]com.

My current interests as a writer and reader include central European literature, lingua francas, the lives of saints, prewar jazz and blues, the U.S. student debt crisis, adoption trauma, disinheritance, rural California, and the politics of memory.