Jennie Feldman was born in South Africa, grew up in London and studied French at Oxford. A former award-winning radio producer and presenter, she is married with two children and lives in Jerusalem and Oxford. Her first collection of poems, The Lost Notebook, was published in 2005, as was her selection and translation from Jacques Réda’s poems, Treading Lightly. Her anthology of seven modern French poets, Into the Deep Street, edited and translated with Stephen Romer, appeared in 2009. Her second collection Swift appeared in 2012.