Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir

Icelandic poet

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1989

Place of Birth: Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland

Profession: poet, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Valgerður Þóroddsdóttir (also Vala Thorodds) (born March 31, 1989) is an Icelandic poet, publisher, translator and literary curator. Valgerður is the founder and director of Partus Press, an independent publisher of poetry and prose based in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Her first chapbook, the booklet-length poem Það sem áður var skógur (What Once Was Forest), was edited by Sjón and published by Partus Press in October 2015.
Her English translations from the Icelandic of the selected poems of Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Waitress in Fall, was published in the UK in 2018. In 2014, Valgerður was nominated for the PEN International New Voices Award.
Her articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including The Reykjavík Grapevine, Iceland Review, and Cereal Magazine, and include interviews with Mary Ellen Mark, Jens Lekman, Sigur Rós, Alex Kapranos, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Daníel Bjarnason, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Sóley and Retro Stefson.