Nunnally was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and St. Louis Park, Minnesota. She was an AFS exchange student to Århus, Denmark in 1970. She received her MA in 1976 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a PhC from the University of Washington in 1979.

Nunnally is an award-winning translator of Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish. Her translation of Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize in 2001, and Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow won the American Translators Association's Lewis Galantière Prize.

Original fiction

• Maija (1995) (ISBN 0-940242-68-0)
• Runemaker: A Margit Andersson Mystery (1996) (ISBN 0-940242-77-X)
• Fate of Ravens: A Margit Andersson Mystery (1998) (ISBN 0-940242-80-X)
• Runemageren – 1998, Danish trans. Lise Rifbjerg (ISBN 87-7394-488-2)
• Odins Ravne – 1999, Danish trans. Lene Sepstrup (ISBN 87-7394-555-2)

Selected translations

• Gangsters by Klas Östergren (from Swedish) (2008)
• The Hurricane Party by Klas Östergren (from Swedish) (2008)
• The Inner Circle by Mari Jungstedt (from Swedish) (2008)
• The Tsar’s Dwarf by Peter H. Fogtdal (from Danish) (2008)
• Gentlemen by Klas Östergren (from Swedish) (2007)
• Doghead by Morten Ramsland (from Danish) (2007)
• Three Cave Mountain by Per Olov Enquist (from Swedish) (2007)
• Unspoken by Mari Jungstedt (from Swedish) (2007)
• Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (from Swedish) (2007)
• The Book About Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist (from Swedish) (2006)
• Chronicler of the Winds by Henning Mankell (from Swedish) (2006)
• Unseen by Mari Jungstedt (from Swedish) (2006)
• Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life by Jens Andersen (from Danish) (2005)
• Lewi’s Journey by Per Olov Enquist (from Swedish) (2005)
• Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, one-volume edition (from Norwegian) (2005)
• Hans Christian Andersen: His Fairy Tale Life by Hjørdis Varmer, illustrated by Lilian Brøgger (from Danish) (2005)
• Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (from Danish) (2004)
• When the Devil Holds the Candle by Karin Fossum (from Norwegian) under pseudonym Felicity David (2004)
• The Ring of the Slave Prince by Bjarne Reuter (from Danish) (2004)
• He Who Fears the Wolf by Karin Fossum (from Norwegian) under pseudonym Felicity David (2003)
• Jenny by Sigrid Undset (from Norwegian) (2002)
• Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum (from Norwegian) under pseudonym Felicity David (2002)
• The Royal Physician’s Visit by Per Olov Enquist (from Swedish) (2001)
• The Unknown Sigrid Undset: Jenny & Other Works by Sigrid Undset (from Norwegian) (2001)
• Unwinding the Clock: Ten Thoughts on Our Relationship to Time by Bodil Jönsson (from Swedish) (2001)
• Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset (from Norwegian) (2000)
• The Time of Light by Gunnar Kopperud (from Norwegian) (2000)
• Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife by Sigrid Undset (from Norwegian) (1999)
• Before You Sleep by Linn Ullmann (from Norwegian) (1999)
• Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath by Sigrid Undset (from Norwegian) (1997)
• War by Klaus Rifbjerg, with Steven T. Murray (from Danish) (1995)
• Mogens and Other Stories by Jens Peter Jacobsen (from Danish) (1994)
• Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg (from Danish) (1993); UK title: Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow under pseudonym F. David
• Enemy’s Enemy by Jan Guillou, with Steven T. Murray under pseudonym Thomas Keeland (from Swedish) (1992)
• Night Roamers & Other Stories by Knut Hamsun (from Norwegian) (1992)
• Pelle the Conqueror, Vol. 2: Apprenticeship by Martin Andersen Nexø, with Steven T. Murray (from Danish) (1991)
• The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen (from Danish) (1991)
• Katinka by Herman Bang (from Danish) (1990)
• Niels Lyhne by Jens Peter Jacobsen (from Danish) (1990) (ISBN 0-14-303981-4)
• Another Metamorphosis & Other Fictions by Villy Sørensen, with Steven T. Murray (from Danish) (1990)
• The Abduction by Mette Newth, with Steven T. Murray (from Norwegian) (1989)
• Laterna Magica by William Heinesen (from Danish) (1987)
• The Sardine Deception by Leif Davidsen, with Steven T. Murray (from Danish) (1986)
• Early Spring by Tove Ditlevsen (from Danish) (1985)

External links

• Web page at the University of Washington
• Finding the Right Words: An award winning Seattle translator gives voice to writers from other lands - Profile from The Seattle Times, September 9, 2001.