Philip M Ward is a freelance writer and translator based in Cambridge, England. The author of  Hofmannsthal and Greek Myth (2002), he has wide-ranging interests in music, literature and theatre and has published in a number of arts journals. Credits as translator include Wedekind's Franziska (Gate Theatre, London, 1998), a revival of the eighteenth-century singspiel  Erwin and Elmire (Goethe/Anna Amalia, Cambridge, 1999) and one-act operas by Krenek and Mosolov. In 2002 he was invited to take part in Continental Britons at the Wigmore Hall, a festival devoted to musical refugees from Nazism, where he spoke on the composer Egon Wellesz.

He is a member of the Society of Authors and the Translators Association and a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge.         

Currently, Ward also works part-time as a researcher with the House of Commons Library, London.  Educated at the universities of Oxford, London and Munich, he has been at various times a charity worker, a museum curator and an English teacher.