Jennifer Croft won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for Homesick and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's Flights. She has also translated Federico Falco's A Perfect Cemetery, Romina Paula's August, Pedro Mairal's The Woman from Uruguay, and Olga Tokarczuk's The Books of Jacob. She holds a PhD from Northwestern University and an MFA from the University of Iowa.