Halah author: Joanna Chen
Joanna Chen is a writer and literary translator whose full-length literary translations include Less Like a Dove (Shearsman Books), Frayed Light (Wesleyan Poetry Series, finalist in the Jewish National Book Awards) and My Wild Garden: Notes from a Gardener’s Eden (Penguin Random House). She teaches literary translation at the Helicon School of Poetry and writes a column for The Los Angeles Review of Books blog.
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Meir Shalev and Joanna Chen
June 21, 2021
“The mole rat is a reclusive creature that disapproves of all other beings and particularly abhors its own kind.”
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Mindy Aber Barad, Helen Bar-Lev, Joanna Chen, Micha Danziger, Wendy Dickstein, Sari Ellen, Judith Fineberg, Larry Lefkowitz, Diti Ronen, Jacqueline Schaalje, Yael Unterman.
April 8, 2021
“Go, go to Auschwitz. / Maybe you’ll get a few poems out of it. “