Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor, and translator working between English and Swedish. The winner of a PEN/Heim grant, she's translated many of the most exciting contemporary Swedish voices, including Hanna Johansson, Quynh Tran, Ia Genberg--and Johanna Hedman. Based in Queens, New York, she serves on the editorial board for Glänta, a journal of arts and politics, and regularly writes on US events in the Swedish press.