Naomi Washer

Naomi Washer is a Chicago-based writer whose novel Subjects We Left Out was published by Veliz Books in 2021. The novel follows a young American translator working on a French poet's book and her relationship with an exchange student. Her other books include the autobiographical Marginalia, which is built from a decade of marginal notes. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago and has published work in journals such as Seneca Review, Passages North, Essay Daily, and Asymptote. She has also translated Sebastián Jiménez Galindo's Experimental Gardening Manual.