I am an author and translator of Norwegian and Danish living in Port Townsend, Washington, I was the co-publisher of Seal Press and director of its imprint, Women in Translation. I also published two translations by Cora Sandel and a novel by Ebba Haslund.
Recent titles include The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápmi and From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture , both from the University of Minnesota Press (2023), and a novel by Norwegian writer Helene Uri, Clearing Out (2018), which won the American-Scandinavian Foundation prize for translation in 2016. I have also received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in translation.
I have previously translated a collection of Sámi folktales By the Fire (2019), as well as a travel narrative by Danish author Emilie Demant Hatt, With the Lapps in the High Mountains (2013). I am currently working on a large collection of Sami folktales (2025).
Translated by Barbara Sjoholm
Emilie Demant Hatt
:
Ved ilden
,
By the Fire: Sami Folktales and Legends,
2019,
Forlaget Universitet Minnesota
Helene Uri ,
Helene Uri
:
Rydde ut
,
Clearing Out,
2019,
Forlaget Universitet Minnesota
Sigrid Lien
:
Lengselens bilder: Fotografiet i norsk utvanringshistorie
,
Pictures of Longing: Photography in Norwegian-American Emigration ,
2018,
Forlaget Universitet Minnesota
Emilie Demant Hatt
:
Med lapperne i hojfjeldet
,
With the Lapps in the High Mountains: A Woman Among the Sami, 1907-1908,
2013,
Forlaget Universitet Wisconsin
Ebba Haslund
:
Det hendte ingenting
,
Nothing Happened,
1987,
Forlaget Seal Press
Cora Sandel
:
Noveller
,
Cora Sandel: Selected Short Stories ,
1985,
Forlaget Seal Press