Barbara Sjoholm is the editor of the anthology Steady As She Goes: Women's Adventures at Sea (Seal, 2003). Her essays, reviews and travel narratives have appeared in the American Scholar, The New York Times, Smithsonian, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Women’s Review of Books, Antioch Review, North American Review, Michigan Review Quarterly, Fourth Genre, ZYZZYVA, Brick, Salon.com and Slate.com. Her essay, “Across the Maelstrom” was a Notable Essay of 2002 in Best American Essays. Her work has been anthologized in A Woman Alone: Travel Tales From Around the Globe; Traveling Souls: Contemporary Pilgrimage Stories; and Face to Face: Women Writing on Faith, Mysticism and Awakening.

As Barbara Wilson (She changed her name in 2000), she is the author of numerous books, including the memoir Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood, which was short-listed for Best Creative Non-Fiction by PEN USA West Center. Her six mysteries have been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Finnish and Japanese, as well as appearing in England. One of them, Gaudi Afternoon, won a British Crime Writers Award for best thriller set in Europe, and was filmed in Barcelona by Susan Seidelman, and stars Judy Davis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lili Taylor and Juliette Lewis.

Barbara Sjoholm has translated several books from Norwegian and was awarded a Columbia Translation Prize for her work on Cora Sandel's short stories. She lives in Seattle and, in addition to writing and consulting, teaches at the University of Washington and Hugo House.

For more information, visit her website.