Carol Volk has published over thirty titles by leading French and francophone writers, including Tahar Ben Jelloun, Jean Dubuffet, Eric Rohmer, Amelie Nothombe, Patrick Chamoiseau, Luc Ferry, Olivier Roy, Robert Bober and others.  Her skillful renderings of French texts have been praised in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, Publishers Weekly and dozens of other publications.  Her work has been published by leading trade and university presses, including Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the University of Chicago Press, Columbia University Press, MIT Press, Harvard University Press and Metropolitan Books.  Excerpts have appeared in The New Yorker, Grand Street and elsewhere.  Her work ranges from fiction and memoir to philosophy, anthropology, political science, film history, art history, architecture, military history and sociology. 

​Volk is director and a long-time a board member of the DC-Area Literary Translators network (DC-ALT), a member of the PEN Translation Committee and of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).  She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Witter-Bynner Reader's Digest Foundation, the French Ministry of Culture, the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.  She holds an M.A. in French literature from New York University, an M.S. in International Relations from Georgetown University, and has studied modern French literature at the Sorbonne.  

 A native New Yorker, she currently lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband and two boys, and is a member of the U.S. Foreign Service.