Karin Snelson is a Seattle-based book editor, reviewer, writer, and translator, specializing in children’s and YA literature. She has served on a Newbery Medal selection committee, on two ALA Notable Children’s Books committees, and on a 2022 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award nominating committee through USBBY. She is the co-translator of the French picture book Jerome by Heart by Thomas Scotto, which won a 2019 Batchelder Honor. She also translated Blexbolex’s The Magicians, which was a Wall Street Journal Best Children’s Book of 2023, a Kirkus Best Book of 2023, and a Booklist Editors’ Choice of 2023. [dj]