Joan­na Chen is a British-born writer and lit­er­ary trans­la­tor from Hebrew to Eng­lish whose trans­la­tions include Agi Mishol’s Less Like a Dove, Yonatan Berg’s Frayed Light (final­ist for the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards), and Meir Shalev’s My Wild Gar­den. Her own poet­ry and writ­ing has appeared in Poet Lore, Man­tis, the Los Ange­les Review of Books, Nar­ra­tive­ly, and the Wash­ing­ton Month­ly, among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She teach­es lit­er­ary trans­la­tion at the Heli­con School of Poet­ry in Tel Aviv.