Kira Josefsson
Kira Josefsson is a writer and translator working between English and Swedish. She writes about the intersection of politics, literature, and identity for both Swedish and English-language publications, and has translated poetry by Anne Boyer, Caitie Moore, and Lina Ekdahl. Based in New York City, she’s part of the translation editorial team at Drunken Boat and is currently working on her first novel.
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Along with her family, friends, and loved ones, we mourn the loss of former PEN America trustee Elisabeth Sifton. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/books/elisabeth-sifton-dead.html
Browse this curated list from @nbc including praise for poet Rocío Carlos (@ninabruja7) & a recommendation from memoirist Reyna Grande (@reynagrande,) both 2003 Emerging Voices Fellows: https://nbcnews.to/2E9xfLF.
PEN America's @jzfriedman says a professor's recent suspension over sharing student-made projects deemed offensive should have been "a teaching opportunity rather than grounds for an investigation." Read the full statement here: https://bit.ly/34jrXrV.