Fiona Rintoul is a writer, journalist and translator. Her poems and short stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines, including Mslexia and Gutter, and she is a past winner of the Gillian Purvis New Writing Award and the Sceptre Prize. She translates from German and French into English and recently completed a new translation of the first world war German classic Erziehung vor Verdun by Arnold Zweig. It was published as Outside Verdun by Freight Books in May 2014 to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War. Fiona's journalism concentrates on financial topics, and she also writes travel pieces and reviews. She was one of the journalists of the year in the 2012 State Street institutional press awards. She has a particular interest in Germany and is a past participant in the IJP British-German Journalists' Exchange programme. Fiona lives in Glasgow.