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Joanna Chen is a British-born writer and literary translator whose full-length literary translations include Agi Mishol’s Less Like a Dove (Shearsman Books, 2016), Yonatan Berg’s Frayed Light (Wesleyan Poetry Series, 2019; a finalist for the Jewish National Book Awards), Meir Shalev’s My Wild Garden: Notes from a Gardener’s Eden (Penguin Random House, 2020) and Hadassa Tal’s But First I Call Your Name (Shearsman Books, 2022). She teaches literary translation at the Helicon Scho...