Barbara Sjoholm is the author of many books of travel memoir, biography, and fiction, including The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland, and Black Fox: A Life of Emilie Demant Hatt, Artist and Ethnographer. Sjoholm’s translations from Norwegian and Danish have earned her awards and fellowships from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has been particularly interested in work related to the indigenous Sami people of Northern Fennoscandia and is the translator of By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends. As Barbara Wilson she is the author of two series of mysteries, featuring lesbian sleuths. Her book Gaudi Afternoon was made into a film with Judy Davis and Marcia Gay Hardin. Sjoholm was also co-founder in 1976 of Seal Press, a long-lived women’s publishing company, and founder and director of Women in Translation, a non-profit press (1989-2004).
Portrait by Betsy Howell
