Joanna Chen is a British-born writer and literary translator whose full-length translations include Less Like a Dove, Frayed Light (finalist in the Jewish National Book Awards), and My Wild Garden. Forthcoming is Hunting in America (winner of the 2023 Paper Brigade Award). Her writing can be found in Narratively, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Consequence, among others.
When we moved to the Ella Valley, my partner and I took great care not to build on land that might have belonged to Palestinians before the war of 1948.