Milena Adam was born in Hamburg in 1991 and lives in Berlin. She translates and interprets to German from French and English. Most recently, her translations of Sandra Newman's novels Ice Cream Star (2018) and Himmel (2020) were published by Matthes & Seitz Berlin. Shubhangi Swarup's Breiten des Verlangens (Latitudes of Longing) is the first work she has translated for Kommode Verlag.