Joanna Chen is an essayist and literary translator. She has translated several novels and poetry collections, including Yonatan Berg’s FRAYED LIGHT (finalist for The National Jewish Book Award) and Tehila Hakimi’s HUNTING IN AMERICA (winner of The Paper Brigade Award for New Israeli Fiction). Her work has been published in The Washington Monthly, The Los Angeles Review of Books and numerous others. She teaches at The Helicon School of Poetry and is international curator at Yetzirah. Find her online @joannachen1