About Kira Josefsson

Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor, and translator working between English and Swedish. Her publications have appeared in places like Granta, Words Without Borders, Triple Canopy, Topic, Kritiker, and Arbetaren. In 2017, she was awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her work on Pooneh Rohi's Araben (The Arab). Current projects include a collaborative translation piece about the simultaneous porousness and rigidity of borders between languages and persons. She serves as Translation Assistant Editor for Anomaly, and on the editorial board for Glänta, a Swedish independent journal of arts and philosophy.