I am a writer, editor, and literary translator working between Swedish and English. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, I have lived in Helsinki, Paris, and Montréal; New York City has been my home for more than a decade. I serve on the editorial board for Glänta, a Swedish magazine of arts and politics, and am an active member of SELTA, ALTA (where I am a two-time mentor in the Emerging Translators Mentorship Program), and the National Writers Union. I write on US issues in the Swedish press.

Awards and recognitions include:

2025 Barrios Book in Translation Prize shortlist for Judith Kiros’s O
2025 Dublin Lit Award longlist for Ia Genberg’s The Details
2024 International Booker Prize shortlist for Ia Genberg’s The Details
2023 Bernard Shaw Prize shortlist for Johanna Hedman’s The Trio
2017 Heim Translation Fund Grant for Pooneh Rohi’s The Arab

translations

  • Shade and Breeze by Quynh Tran

    Shade and Breeze by Quynh Tran

    “A sumptuous and beautiful book … Tran’s prose [has] an intensely cinematic texture, one dominated by mood, atmosphere, and subtle shifts of shadow and light.” – Lucy Scholes, the Telegraph.
    Out from Lolli Editions.

  • O by Judith Kiros

    O by Judith Kiros

    Shortlisted for the 2024 Barrios Book
    in Translation Award.
    “O is unlike anything you have ever read. Judith Kiros’s astonishing talents manifest in language that holds the balance between beautiful and heartbreaking. This book, written by a brilliant and unflinching imagination, is quite simply a joy to read.” —Maaza Mengiste
    Out from World Poetry.

  • The Details by Ia Genberg

    The Details by Ia Genberg

    Shortlisted for the 2024 International
    Booker Prize; longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Lit Award.
    “Genberg’s marvelous prose is also a kind of fever, mesmerizing and hot to the touch.” – The New York Times Book Review.
    Out from Wildfire (UK) and HarperVia (US).

  • Antiquity by Hanna Johansson

    Antiquity by Hanna Johansson

    “What Hanna Johansson offers in her electric, unsettling debut refuses all protection and dares the reader to do the same. Kira Josefsson’s translation is its own marvel, the language brimming with just-kept chaos until the keeping’s no longer possible.” – Anna Moschovakis, author of Participation.
    Out from Catapult (US) and Scribe (UK).

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original writing

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editing / collaborations

  • Åke Hodell’s The Marathon Poet, Translated by Fia Backström

    Åke Hodell’s The Marathon Poet, Translated by Fia Backström

    I edited Fia Backström’s translation of Swedish avant-garde poet Åke Hodell’s The Marathon Poet, published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2020.

  • Ghost Life – Hauntings in the Society of Spectres by Göran Dahlberg

    Ghost Life – Hauntings in the Society of Spectres by Göran Dahlberg

    I edited Göran Dahlberg’s chapbook essay “Ghost Life – Hauntings in the Society of Spectres”, published by Multimedijalni institut, Zagreb, as part of their 2020 Vectors of Collective Imaginations series.

  • It Was Over When You Said What

    It Was Over When You Said What

    Twelve writers furrow the texture of the months, days, and heartbeats when they realized it was over––and the swirl of contradictory emotions that come after the break. Do you believe in life after love? Edited with Rider Alsop and designed by Sara Duell. Published by Topos Press in 2017.

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news

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