B.J. Epstein, who graduated from Bryn Mawr in 2001, is a senior lecturer in literature and translation at the University of East Anglia in England. She’s also a writer, editor, and Swedish-to-English translator. She is the author of Are the Kids All Right? The Representation of LGBTQ Characters in Children’s and Young Adult Lit; Translating Expressive Language in Children’s Literature; and Ready, Set, Teach!; the editor of two books on translation in the Nordic countries and co-editor of Queer in Translation; and the translator or writer of many other essays, articles, short stories, poems, and other texts. Her most recent translation is The Bird in Me by Sara Lundberg. She is currently co-editing a book about LGBTQ children’s lit from around the world, writing a book about breastfeeding in literature, and translating a children’s book about the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint. B.J. lives with her wife and their children and can be reached at bjepstein@gmail.com.