About

I’m an East Coast U.S.-dwelling 30-something dedicated to languages and geekery.

I understand written and spoken German, understand written Spanish, and am getting there with written Japanese. I could also flail along in French, and might, if I tried very hard and met sympathetic, patient people, manage to find food and not die in Dutch, Portuguese, and Italian. Language learning keeps me centered in a fast-moving, much-demanding world.

I pursue a number of different personal projects at any time, but one of them has been translating short fiction by German author Karla Schmidt. Schmidt’s work has been nominated and placed for German-language speculative fiction prizes including the Kurd Laßwitz Preis, Deutscher Science Fiction Preis, and Deutscher Phantastik Preis, and I highly recommend you read her short novel Lügenvögel, if you read German.

I also dabble in some video/streaming projects; you can see them here on my YouTube channel. And I’m teaching myself to draw; I used to draw when I was a young adult and I had no idea how much I’d missed it until I started up again. You can see my Attempts at Art over on DeviantArt, here.

If you’d like to support me and my work, and help me find breathing room to get away from office work (which routinely burns me out hard and fast on a three-to-four year cycle and which I need to get away from if I’m going to stay healthy), you can give via my Ko-fi page here. (I go by Waldweg on Ko-fi.)