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Sarah Timmer Harvey (born July 17th, 1980 in Brisbane) is an Australian translator and writer. Timmer Harvey is included in the shortlist of the 2024 International Booker Prize for their translation of "What I'd rather not think about" by Jente Posthuma.

Life and Career
Sarah Timmer Harvey grew up Australia, lived in the Netherlands for fourteen years before moving to the United States in 2013. Timmer Harvey currently resides in Woodstock, NY.

Timmer Harvey has said that while living in the Netherlands, they really got into reading Dutch fiction and poetry and occasionally translated things for pleasure or for their work, but it wasn’t until they moved to New York, United States and pursued an MFA at Columbia University that they began to take an interest in literary translation as a career.

Timmer Harvey translated "What I'd rather not think about" by Jente Posthuma and "Reconstruction" by Karin Amatmoekrim". . Their translation of "Thistle" by Nadia de Vries will be published by The New Menard Press in 2024. Timmer Harvey's translations have appeared in several publications including Modern Poetry in Translation , Asymptote  , Gulf Coast Journal and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Literary Translations

 * "What I'd rather not think about" by Jente Posthuma. Translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey. Scribe 2023.
 * "Reconstruction" by Karin Amatmoekrim. Translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey. Strangers Press 2020.
 * Excerpts from "Calf's Caul" by Lucas Rijneveld. Translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey. Shortlisted for Asymptote magazine's "Close Approximations" translation contest in 2017).
 * "RGB" by Lucia Van den Brink. Translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey. LA review 2022.

Awards and Nominations

 * Shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize for the translation of "What I'd rather not think about" by Jente Posthuma. Scribe 2023.
 * Shortlisted for Asymptote magazine's "Close Approximations" translation contest in 2017.