Barbara
Sjoholm is a writer of memoir, personal essays and travel narratives.
Before changing her name in 2001, she published a number of books of
fiction, mystery and non-fiction as Barbara Wilson. Her memoir
Blue
Windows: A Christian Science Childhood (Picador, 1997) was nominated for a
PEN Center USA West award in Creative Non-fiction, and won a Lambda Award
for best lesbian autobiography. Her recent essays have appeared in The
American Scholar, The Michigan Quarterly
Review, The North American Review, and
ZYZZYVA.
Her two mystery series, one set in Seattle and featuring the printer Pam
Nilsen, and the other set all over the world and starring the
irrepressible and rakish translator Cassandra Reilly, are entertaining and
politically aware. She won another Lambda as well as a British Crime
Writer's Award for the comic thriller Gaudi
Afternoon, which was made into
a film by Susan Seidelman, starring Judy Davis as Cassandra and Marcia Gay
Harden as Frankie.
Barbara Sjoholm was the co-founder of Seal Press in 1976, and of the
non-profit Women in Translation in 1988. Since leaving Seal Press in 1994,
she has taught at Flight of the Mind, the Hugo House and in private
classes. She has also worked as an editor in addition to continuing to
publish widely. She has translated several works from Norwegian and has
always traveled extensively, particularly in the northern regions of
Europe. She lives in Seattle.
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