B. J. Woodstein (also known as B. J. Epstein) is a Swedish-to-English translator, writer, editor, EDI consultant, lactation consultant, and doula, as well as an honorary professor in literature and translation at the University of East Anglia in England. Her translations include Billie and Bean in the City by Julia Hansson (Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection 2023); We are Lions! by Jens Mattsson, with illustrations by Jenny Lucander; The Summer of Diving by Sara Stridsberg, with illustrations by Sara Lundberg (a 2022 USBBY Outstanding International Book and a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book for 2022); David Sundin’s The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read, with illustrations by Alexis Holmqvist; and Sara Lundberg’s The Bird in Me (shortlisted for the 2021 Greenaway Award and longlisted for the 2021 UKLA Book Awards). She lives with her wife and their daughters in Norwich, England. [dj]