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News and Publications August 2022 Translation and Genre Translation and Genre is an accessible scholarly book about a variety of genres and how they can be translated. Click here for details. June 2022 The Summer of Diving The Summer of Diving is a beautiful picture book exploring a girl's experience of her father's depression. Click here for more details. March 2022 We're Here! ​ We’re Here! A Practical Guide to Becoming an LGBTQ+ Parent is all about the ways LGBTQ+ people can make our families, give birth, feed our babies, and much more. In addition, it includes information on how health professionals and allies can best support our community. Dozens of LGBTQ+ people and allies have also shared their personal stories here, so the book contains loads of practical information as well as inspiring tales. February 2022 The Portrayal of Breastfeeding in Literature Click here for more details. August 2021 Gin & Topic podcast with B.J. Published August 2021 Click here for more details. Published June 2021 The Book That Did Not Want To Be Read by David Sundin The bestselling Swedish children's book of 2020, translated by B. J. Woodstein, with graphic design by Alexis Holmqvist. ​ WARNING! Stop what you're doing! Don't you know that this book does NOT want to be read? Not now and not ever. ​ Because if this book is read all kinds of strange and magical things might happen. Silly things and secret things... Alligators might appear, the book might try to fly away, and before you know it you'll be having all kinds of unexpected fun. How AWFUL. Don't let this book be read. You're not prepared. ​ Or are you? June 2021 Catch up on a chat with B.J. and Intellect Books on the @intellectbooks Instagram feed. Button March 2021 The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist 2021

Postnatal Doula As a postnatal doula, I provide emotional and practical support to help you transition to life with a new baby. What each individual or family needs is different, but examples of things that we might do include debriefing your birth, discussing feeding, recovery, parenting, emotions, baby care, the transformation that occurs at the arrival of a child, and anything else that is relevant. I provide information and signposting as needed, and can support breastfeeding, babywearing, sleep and other things. I can carry out baby care, and can help with light practical tasks, such as preparing a meal, pet care (if relevant) or shopping. I can also take care of your baby while work, shower, exercise, sleep or otherwise get a break. Postnatal doula sessions cost £35 per hour, with a three-hour minimum (travel expenses can also apply if you are outside Norwich). Please contact me for a no-obligation discussion of what I might be able to do for you.

Pregnancy, Birth Work and Lactation Support After the birth of my first child, I quickly grew to understand how vital knowledgeable, caring support can be. My own experiences during pregnancy, birth and lactation – and my gratitude to my wife and to the midwives and lactation consultant who helped me – led me to train to become first a breastfeeding peer supporter and then a breastfeeding counsellor. I became an advocate for the rather obvious idea that you should provide people with research-based evidence and then support them to make the decisions that work best for them and their circumstances. I started by supporting people postnatally, and then I added in antenatal support and birth work once I trained as a doula and also as a peer supporter and mentor for pregnant people suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum. It should go without saying that it is your body, your baby and your choice, and I love working with people so they can feel supported and empowered to make the choices that suit them. Postnatal Doula Button Writer Button Lactation Support Button Consultant and Speaker Speaker Button Birth Doula Birth Doula Birth Doula Button Three-Step Rewind Practitioner Button

Lactation Support I am a qualified International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and I also volunteer on the National Breastfeeding Helpline. ​ I provide in-person or Zoom consultations for support with breastfeeding/chestfeeding. ​ An initial in-person consultation costs £90 and takes approximately 60-90 minutes. You will receive written recommendations after the consultation and a follow-up telephone or video call of up to 30 minutes within a week. If you live outside Norwich, mileage is charged from my house at £0.15 per mile. Additional in-person consultations are £60. ​ An online-only consultation costs £60 and takes approximately 30-60 minutes. You will receive written recommendations after the video call and a follow-up telephone call of up to 30 minutes within a week. ​ ​ ​ The National Breastfeeding Helpline is free to call and is open 9.30 am to 9.30 pm every day of the year. The telephone number is 0300 100 0212. ​

Birth Doula I trained to be a doula because I had a doula myself for my second birth, and that made all the difference between me feeling impotent and done-to, as I had the first time around, and empowered and strong the second time. I want to help you find the strength and power within you and I want to support you so you can meet your pregnancy, birth, feeding, and parenting goals. I believe that loving, encouraging, and informed support really matters, so I will offer you evidence-based information, a warm and friendly listening ear, and an attention to detail that means that I will focus on your needs and desires. I have extensive experience with both antenatal and postnatal support because I am a trained peer supporter through Pregnancy Sickness Support and also a trained breastfeeding counsellor on the National Breastfeeding Helpline. I have a particular passion for breastfeeding and have myself been a breastfeeding mother for six years and counting now. I also have experience of fertility treatment and would be happy to support individuals/families on their fertility journey. ​ Some of the relevant training I have taken includes: a doula course; a breastfeeding peer support module; a breastfeeding counsellor course; negotiation skills; assertiveness training; counselling skills; stress management skills; courses in anatomy, physiology, genetics, and other science subjects. ​ Feel free to ask for my CV if you would like to know more. ​ Beside my volunteer roles, I work as an academic in literature and translation at the University of East Anglia. Outside of work, I love spending time with my family, reading, walking, and swimming. I am originally from Chicago, in the US, and now I live in Norwich with my wife and our two children and two cats. I am a mentored doula, which means I am supported by a more experienced doula, and this in turn is beneficial to you since you in a sense get two doulas for the price of one.

Three-Step Rewind Practitioner Three-step rewind is a relaxation and learning strategy that helps you process, reframe, and better cope with a difficult event in your past. This can be about a traumatic event, the ending of a relationship, or grief regarding pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding, or anything challenging. Over the course of two sessions, you go into a relaxed state, review the event, and then change how you view it, distancing yourself from it so it does not have the same hold over you. It is not therapy as such, but rather a way of helping yourself move on from an upsetting/traumatising situation. It is thought that this technique can help release some negative feelings about yourself and your situation and give you a way of reframing it more positively. The first session takes around an hour. The second session is usually shorter, around 30-45 minutes. There will usually be 7 or so days in between the sessions. At the moment, all sessions take place over video call, and you would need to be somewhere you could sit comfortably, undisturbed. It costs £175 total. Trained and accredited by

Hej! Jag är översättare från svenska till engelska, och ibland även från norska eller danska till engelska. Jag har översatt många olika texter, allt från barnböcker till kokböcker, noveller, dikter, avhandlingar, artiklar, reklamtexter med mera. Jag har till exempel översatt Sara Lundbergs Fågeln i mig flyger vart den vill och David Sundins Boken som inte ville bli läst. Det brukar kosta cirka 1.200 kronor per 1.000 ord, men det beror på texten och hur snabbt översättningen behövs. Förutom att vara översättare är jag även författare, korrekturläsare, docent i litteratur och översättning vid University of East Anglia, och internationellt certifierad amningskonsult (IBCLC) och doula. Kontakta mig gärna för att diskutera hur vi kunde arbeta tillsammans.

For Keynote Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures, click here or see below For Conference Presentations , click here or see below. Academic Articles and Chapters Queer Classics in Translation , Translating the Classic, forthcoming. ​ Heaven Forbid: An Analysis of the Portrayal of Death in English-Language Picturebooks, with Comparison to Swedish and Norwegian-Language Ones , Norsk Barnebokinstitutt (Norwegian Institute for Children’s Books), 2021. Available at: https://barnebokinstituttet.no/faglitteratur-om-barnelitteratur/heaven-forbid/ . ​ The Translation of Neologisms in Children’s Literature: A Case Study , Equivalences, 2019, volume 46, number 1-2, pp. 213-229. ​ Translating Queer Children’s and YA Literature , Translating for Children beyond Stereotypes/Traduire pour la jeunesse au-delà des stéréotypes, Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2019, pp. 127-142. ​ Translating National History for Children: A Case Study of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , in Ilha do Desterro, vol. 71, no. 1, Jan./April 2018. Available at http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2175-80262018000100103&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en ​ Breast Versus Bottle: The Feeding of Babies in English and Swedish Picturebooks , in Barnboken, tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning/Journal of Children’s Literature Research, Vol. 40, 2017. Available at: http://www.barnboken.net/index.php/clr/issue/view/20 ​ Introduction and Eradicalisation: Eradicating the Queer in Children’s Literature , in Queer in Translation, London: Routledge, 2017. ​ Response to: Kjersti Lersbryggen Mork, Voices from a Void: The Holocaust in Norwegian Children’s Literature , in Translating Holocaust Lives, ed. by Jean Boase-Beier, Peter Davies, Andrea Hammel, and Marion Winters, London: Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 195-198. ​ The Case of the Missing Bisexuals: Bisexuality in Books for Young Readers , reprinted in Bisexuality in Education: Erasure, Exclusion and the Absence of Intersectionality, ed. by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, London: Routledge, 2016 (winner of Fourth Annual Bisexual Book Awards 2015 for Bisexual Non-Fiction). ​ Are there Blacks in Europe? How African-American Characters are (or are not) Translated , in True North: Literary Translation in the Nordic Countries, ed. B.J. Epstein, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2014, pp. 84-97. ​ The Conservative Era: A Case Study of Historical Comparisons of Translations of Children’s Literature from English to Swedish , in Literary Translation: Re-drawing the Boundaries, ed. by Jean Boase-Beier, Philip Wilson, and Antoinette Fawcett, London: Routledge, 2014, pp. 64-78. ​ Otherwise Engaged , in The Para-Academic Handbook, Bristol: Hammer On Press, 2014. ​ Civilised, Liberal and Dark: Images of Sweden in the Media and Literature , in Images of Sweden, ed. by Kurt Almqvist and Alexander Linklater, Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2014, pp. 29-40. ​ The Case of the Missing Bisexuals: Bisexuality in Books for Young Readers , in Journal of Bisexuality, issue 14, pp. 110-125, 2014. ​ Shy, Gentle Kisses and Soft, Sweet Cuddles: the Sex Lives of Lesbian Teenagers Versus Gay Male Teenagers in YA Literature , in Write4Children, vol. 4, issue 1, pp. 17-26, 2013. ​ Inflicting Trauma: The Ethics of Writing and Teaching the Holocaust for Children , in Holocaust Studies, 19/1, 2013, pp. 101-120. ​ Translating National History for Children: A Case Study of a Classic , in New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship, vol. 19, issue 1, pp. 1-13, 2013. ​ The Gay Nuclear Family , in Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, vol. 8, no. 3, 2012, pp. 142-152. ​ We’re Here, We’re (Not?) Queer: LGBTQ Characters in Children’s Books , in Journal of GLBT Family Studies, issue 8, pp. 287-300, June 2012. ​ The Anti-Children’s Books Children’s Books: A Case Study of How Authors and Translators View Children’s Literature , in Write4Children, vol. 3, issue 2, pp. 14-27, 2012. ​ Queer Messages: Using LGBTQ YA Literature in the Classroom , in Signal, spring 2012. ​ Automatically Idiomatic: Using Translated Idioms in Children’s Literature to Expand Target Languages , in Germanic Notes and Reviews, spring 2012, pp. 27-39. ​ Not as Queer as Folk: Issues of Representations in LGBTQ Young Adult Literature , in Inis, vol. 36, pp. 44-49, winter 2011. ​ Dancing and Playing and Mattering: How Gay Teenagers are Portrayed in Young Adult Literature , in Conflicts and Controversies: Challenging Children’s Literature, ed. Bridget Carrington & Jennifer Harding, Lichfield, England: Pied Piper Publishing, 2011. ​ Introduction and also co-guest editor of In Other Words: Translating Philosophy, winter 2010, issue 37. ​ Girl with the Dragon Translation: Translating Thrillers and Thrilling Translations , FIT XIX Congress Proceedings, summer 2011. ​ Paint it Black? Mark Twain’s Dialects as Translated to Scandinavian Languages , in Germanic Notes and Reviews, pp. 23-40, spring 2011. ​ Life is Just an Allusion , in Crossing Textual Boundaries in International Children’s Literature, ed. by Lance Weldy, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp. 2-24. ​ Dancing and Playing and Mattering: How Gay Teenagers are Portrayed in Young Adult Literature (short version), IBBYLink, pp. 18-19, spring 2011. ​ Introduction and also guest editor of In Other Words: Translating Queers/Queering Translation, winter 2010, issue 36. ​ (Re)Creation: Translating Wordplay in Children’s Literature, in Germanic Notes and Reviews, pp. 5-17, winter 2010. ​ Manipulating the Next Generation: Translating Culture for Children , in Papers: Explorations into Children’s Literature, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 41-76, autumn 2010. ​ Introduction , in Northern Lights: Translation in the Nordic Countries, ed. B.J. Epstein, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 11-16. ​ In Name Only? Translating Names in Children’s Literature , in Northern Lights: Translation in the Nordic Countries, ed. B.J. Epstein, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 191-209. ​ It’s Just an Allusion: Translating Allusions in Children’s Literature , in Proceedings from FIT Conference, Shanghai: Foreign Languages Press, 2008. ​ ​ ​ Keynote Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures Keynotes Hands, Alligators (or Crocodiles?), and the Invisible: Theory and Practice in Translating Children’s Literature , the University of Anbar, Iraq, online, 2021. ​ Hands, Alligators (or Crocodiles?), and the Invisible: Theory and Practice in Translating Children’s Literature , the University of Leicester, England, online, 2021. ​ Supporting LGBTQ People/Families with Breastfeeding , The Association of Breastfeeding Mothers conference, Birmingham, England, 2019. ​ Supporting LGBTQ People/Families with Breastfeeding , The Breastfeeding Network conference, Birmingham, England, 2017. ​ The Case of the Missing Bisexuals: Bisexuality in Books and Media , UK Parliament, London, England, 2017. ​ LGBTQ Children’s Literature , Jaume I University, Castelló de la Plana, Spain, 2017. ​ Translating Queer Literature for Children and Young Adults , keynote lecture for, International Research Training Group Diversity, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2017. ​ The Female Figure: Fertility, Maternity, and Breastfeeding , Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England, 2016. ​ Not a Piece of (Sandwich) Cake: Translating Food , Sveriges Facköversättarförening Conference, London, England, 2015. ​ Scrumpdiddlyumptious Buzzburgers: Figurative Language in Roald Dahl’s Work , Lemon Day, Wymondham, England, 2013. ​ “Being gay is not an issue...it is a fact”: The problem with problem books , Cube at the Forum, Norwich, England, 2013, as part of Norwich Pride. ​ • “Fallen women, moody bitches, and stupid southerners: Language usage in thrillers and their translation,” City University, London, England, 2013. ​ Let It Out, Boy: LGBTQ Teenagers and Sex in Young Adult Literature , University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2013, as part of LGBT History Month. ​ Neither Here Nor Queer , Critical Sexology seminar: Queer and/in Translation, Queen Mary, University of London, England, 2012. ​ Images of Sweden in the Media and Literature , Images of Sweden 2, Swedish Embassy, London, England, 2012. ​ Tackling Homophobia in Schools , Cube at the Forum, Norwich, England, 2012, as part of Norwich Pride. ​ Translating the Holocaust for Children , University of East Anglia research seminar, Norwich, England, 2012. ​ Paint it Black: Translating Huckleberry Finn for Children: Issues of Censorship , British Library, London, 2011. ​ Queer Messages: LGBTQ Characters in Children’s Books , Diversity and Equality in Careers and Employment (DECERE Centre), Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, 2011. ​ Queer as Pulp: LGBT Pulp Fiction, Then and Now , University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2011, as part of LGBT History Month. ​ Translating Names , University of East Anglia research seminar, Norwich, England, 2011. ​ Queer Messages: LGBTQ Characters in Children’s Books , as part of Norwich Pride, Norwich, England, 2010. ​ The Conservative Era , Disordering the Disciplines: Translation and Interdisciplinarity Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2010. ​ We’re Here, We’re (Not?) Queer: LGBTQ Characters in Children’s Books , University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, and Millennium Library, Norwich England, 2010, as part of LGBT History Month. ​ The Art and Craft of Literary Translation , Queens University, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2009. ​ Child’s Play: Translating Figurative Language in Children’s Literature , Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008. Conference Presentations Conference Presentations The Dearth of Death: Comparing Death as a Subject in English versus Swedish Picturebooks , International Research Society for Children’s Literature Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019. ​ Translating Queer Children’s Literature , Book Launch Symposium for Queer in Translation, May 2017. ​ Forskning i barnlitteratur (On my current research into children’s literature), Workshop on Queer Children’s Literature, Swedish Institute for Children’s Books, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2017. ​ “Being gay is not an issue...it is a fact”: The problem with problem books , International Research Society for Children’s Literature Conference, Worcester, England, 2015. ​ Making a Difference: Engagement in the Classroom , National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement Annual Conference, Bristol, England, 2013. ​ A Tailless Tail: Knutsson as Writer and Translator , Beyond Transfiction: Translators and (Their) Authors, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2013. ​ Neither Here Nor Queer: Translating Queer Literature for Children from English to Swedish , Nordic Translation Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2013. ​ Changing Views of Children and Children’s Literature: A Case Study of Historical Comparisons of Re-Translations of Children’s Literature from English to Swedish , Re-Translating Children’s Literature, Rouen University, Rouen, France, 2013. ​ Satan Was a Lesbian: Lesbian Pulp Fiction, Then and Now , Forbidden Fruits, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, 2012. Shoah Business: The Ethics of Featuring the Holocaust in Children’s Literature , The Child and the Book Conference, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 2012. ​ Girl with the Dragon Translation: Translating Thrillers and Thrilling Translations , FIT XIX Congress, San Francisco, 2011. ​ Gentle Kisses and Cuddles: Lesbian Teenagers in Young Adult Literature , Lesbian Lives Conference, Brighton, England, 2011. ​ Translating the Holocaust for Children: An Introduction to the Issues , Holocaust Writing and Translation, Norwich, England, 2010. ​ Dancing and Playing and Mattering: How Gay Teenagers are Portrayed in Young Adult Literature , The 17th Annual British IBBY/NCRCL Children’s Literature Conference: Conflicts and controversies, London, England, 2010 (revised version of paper given in 2010). ​ Not Queer as Folk: How Gay Youth are Portrayed in Young Adult Literature , research seminar at the School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2010. ​ Dancing and Playing and Mattering: How Gay Teenagers are Portrayed in Young Adult Literature , The Emergent Adult: Adolescent Literature and Culture, Cambridge, England, 2010. ​ A Tailless Tail: Knutsson as Writer and Translator , The Author-Translator in the European Literary Tradition, Swansea, Wales, 2010. ​ Paint it Black: Mark Twain’s Dialects as Translated to Scandinavian Languages , Nineteenth-Century Translations and Transnational Connections, Lund, Sweden, 2010. ​ Manipulating the Next Generation: Translating Culture for Children , Nida School for Translation Studies, Misano Adriatico, Italy, 2009. ​ Protectionism: Removing the Foreign and the Challenging Aspects of Children’s Books , International Research Society for Children’s Literature Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, 2009. ​ Not a Piece of (Sandwich) Cake , Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, 2009. ​ The Conservative Era , Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, 2009. Protecting Children: Changing Trends in Translating Children’s Literature , Translation Right or Wrong Conference, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 2009. ​ Equality Through Literature: How Non-Heterosexualities are Portrayed in Children’s Literature , LGBT Lives: Sexual/Gender Dissidence over the Life Course Conference, Edinburgh, 2008. ​ Translating Children’s Literature: Issues of Power , Power: Forms, Dynamics, Consequences Conference, Tampere, Finland, 2008. ​ Life is Just an Allusion: Translating Allusions in Children’s Literature , International Board on Books for Children and Young Adults Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008. ​ It’s Just an Allusion: Allusions in Children’s Literature , International Federation of Translators Conference, Shanghai, China, 2008. ​ Writing and Translating Children’s Literature: Issues of Power , Writers’ and Literary Translators’ International Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008. ​ Translating Neologisms in Children’s Literature , research seminar at Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, 2008. ​ In Name Only?: Translating Names in Children’s Literature , Nordic Translation Conference, London, England, 2008. ​ Power in Translation: Postcolonial Theories and Children’s Literature , Translation: Theory and Practice Conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2008. ​ Translation in MFA Programs , moderator of a panel, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, New York City, USA, 2008. ​ The Translation of Dialects in Children’s Literature: Issues of Power , International Research Society for Children’s Literature Conference, Kyoto, Japan, 2007. ​ The Translation of Wordplay , The British Comparative Literature Association XI International Conference, London, England, 2007. ​ Translating Dialects and Wordplay in Children’s Literature , research seminar at Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, 2007. ​ The Translation of Dialects in Children’s Literature , The Child and the Book Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007. ​ ​

Swedish to English Translator På svenska I have worked as a translator since 2002. I have translated many different texts from Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian to English, and occasionally also from English or Danish to Swedish. Over the years, I’ve gained experience in translating a range of texts, including menus and cookbooks, user’s manuals, annual reports, financial documents, scientific articles, poems, songs, short stories, novels, books on gardening and art, literary analyses, and much more. I’ve worked for individual customers, translation agencies, organisations, universities, and publishing companies. In recent years, I have mostly focused on literary fiction and non-fiction. For example, in 2022, my translation of The Summer of Diving by Sara Stridsberg with illustrations by Sara Lundberg, was published, and in 2021, my translation of David Sundin's The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read came out. In 2020, my translation of Sara Lundberg’s illustrated novel was published in North America as The Bird in Me Flies and in the rest of the world as The Bird Within Me, and my translation of Ylva Hillström and Karin Eklund’s Mapping the Invisible was published in Sweden. ​ Other literary authors whose short stories or poems or novel excerpts I have translated include Mats Kempe, Kristina Sandberg, Edith Södergran, Moa Backe Åstot, Kerstin Norborg, Johan Jönson, Gunnar Ardelius and Johannes Anyuru. ​ ​ I have also written many articles about translation and given dozens of academic and popular talks on the subject. I am a full member of the Swedish-English Literary Translators’ Association, Sveriges Facköversättarförening (Swedish Association of Professional Translators), and Översättarcentrum (Translators’ Centre). Also translated by B.J. Woodstein...

Literature and Translation I have been teaching language and literature as well as translating from the Scandinavian languages for around twenty years now, and I’ve been a writer and editor longer than that. I am fascinated by how languages work and how we communicate with one another. Translator Translator Translator Translator from Swedish, Danish and Norwegian to English. Editor Editor Editor Copy editor and proofreader. proofreader Consultant and Speaker Speaker Lectures, workshops and more held around the world. Academic and Writer Writer Associate Professor in literature and translation at the UEA Button Button Button Button to Academic and Writer På svenska

Writer I have published dozens of articles, personal essays and book reviews about breastfeeding, birth, parenting and other related topics. In 2022, Praecalrus Press published my book We’re Here! A Practical Guide to Becoming an LGBTQ+ Parent. ​ Please contact me if you are interested in having me write an article for your magazine, newspaper or website. ​ ​ Published work includes: Many personal essays in Kveller, PJ Library, The Conversation, The Jewish Chronicle, and other magazines or websites, and in books such as Queer Girls in Class, Getting Bi and Second-Person Queer. Many book reviews in Swedish in Facköversättaren. Many book reviews in English in Wales Arts Review, Mensa Bulletin, among many others. Academic book reviews in Barnboken, The Journal of Specialised Translation, The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies and International Research on Children’s Literature, among others. More than a hundred articles, restaurant reviews, interviews, and encylopedia entries in publications as varied as The Literary Encyclopedia, The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature, Korean Literature Now, HG and Early Motherhood, The Conversation, The Jewish Chronicle, The Local, Scroll.in, The Independent, Pink News, The Guardian, The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature, New Statesman, Words Without Borders, Lighthouse, Heritage Florida Jewish News, Thesis Whisperer, Chickpea, Mslexia, Polari, Once Upon a Bookcase, New Writing Net, The Bristol Biennial catalogue, Writer Abroad, For Books’ Sake, In Other Words, Europe and Me, The Danforth Review, Relish, Sally’s Place, Gourmet, Verbatim, Fence, Funds for Writers, Write Away, ESL Magazine, Section 28 Anthology, and Translation Magazine. Regular articles for The Danish Pioneer, Mensa Bulletin, Kveller, The Huffington Post, and ABM: The Magazine of the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers.

Consultant and Speaker I have been a university lecturer since 2009, teaching courses on children’s literature, comics and graphic novels, literary translation, and queer literature. I am an experienced speaker who has given presentations, workshops, and seminars around the world, primarily on translation, writing, breastfeeding, culture, and literature. I have also frequently been interviewed on the radio and on TV programs about these topics. I can happily design a lecture or seminar for your school, university, or organisation according to your needs, and I can provide quotes or interviews for the media.