Barbara SjoholmBarbara Sjoholm is an author and translator from Norwegian and Danish whose books include the illustrated history, From Lapland to Sápmi: Collecting and Returning Sámi Craft and Culture; The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland and Sápi; The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and Other Women of the Sea. She has won grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Scandinavian Foundation. Her essays and travel articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian, Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Scandinavian Studies, among other publications. She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Read More Read Less