Millay Hyatt is a Berlin-based freelance author, translator, and lecturer with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California. She writes for various publications and has a regular column in Philosophie Magazin. Her most recent book is Wie viele Tage muss ich gehen: Zu Gast in unbekannter Nachbarschaft (How Many Days On the Road: On Being a Guest) (Friedenauer Presse / Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2026); her book Nachtzugtage (Friedenauer Presse / Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2024), recipient of the Ilse-Schwepcke-Prize for Travel Writing by Women, is forthcoming in her own translation as Days on the Night Train from Haus Publishing.