Joanna Chen Translator

Yonatan Berg is the winner of the Minister of Culture Prize and the Prime Ministers Writer’s Prize, and has received fellowships from the Rothschild Foundation and The National Library of Israel, among others. He has published three books of poetry, one memoir, and the prize-winning novel, Five More Minutes, all in Hebrew. Joanna Chen is a literary translator and essayist. Her work has been published in Guernica, Poet Lore, Narratively, and Newsweek, among others. Her translations have been published in Poetry International, Consequence, Mantis, and many more. Her translation of Agi Mishol’s Less Like a Dove. She is currently translating Meir Shalev’s My Wild Garden. She writes a column for The Los Angeles Review of Books.