Élise Hendrick is a translator, writer, and editor based in Cincinnati, OH, US.

As a translator and editor, she works with Russian, Japanese, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese, and English, specialising in legal, medical, technical, and financial documents, as well as press releases, essays, and articles.

In her writing, Élise Hendrick focuses on political commentary and satire on current issues, primarily in the US and Germany. Her main political blog, Meldungen aus dem Exil, contains mostly German-language (but some English-language) essays on freedom of speech in the US and Germany, war, the daily absurdities of the corporate media, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and issues facing the modern Left.

In addition to her political commentaries, which have been published in the online newspaper Neue Rheinische Zeitung and the alternative Jewish magazine DER SEMIT, Élise is currently working her first book, under the working title Reunion – A Travelogue.

Simultaneously humourous and introspective, Reunion (planned release date: Mid-January) follows Élise on a trip through Germany, Poland, Austria, Italy, Spain, and France, to get acquainted with familiar places and explore new ones, after a ten-year absence from the Continent. The foreword to Reunion, which recounts a surreal journey from Munich to Berlin in December 1996, is being published serially to the project website (http://reuniontravelogue.wordpress.com).

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