Barbara Sjoholm is the author of more than twenty works of fiction, nonfiction, and translations. Until 2001, when she changed her last name, she wrote as Barbara Wilson. Her books include Blue Windows, The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer, and her travel essays have appeared in Slate, Smithsonian, and the New York Times, as well as many literary journals. She was the co-founder of two publishing companies, Seal Press and Women in Translation. She is also a translator from Norwegian and Danish. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.