Christina Wolff worked as an elementary school teacher before starting her own business as an author. When she' s not writing books, she likes to rearrange her apartment, browse her favorite bookstore, and eat lots of cheesecake. She lives in Hanover, England with her family and a cheeky little dog lady.
Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp is a literary translator who translates fiction and nonfiction into English from Arabic, Russian and German. She won an IBBY Honor List award in 2022 for her translation of The Raven’ s Children by Yulia Yakovleva. Her work has also been shortlisted for the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator' s Prize, the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize and the GLLI Translated YA Prize. She has several times been awarded a PEN Translates grant for her translations, which include fiction and nonfiction from Germany, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Russia, Switzerland, and Syria.
Ruth has a particular interest in history and historical fiction, children’ s publishing, and diverse and inclusive literature, including queer/LGBTQ literature, and writing by authors of color.
Ruth is a passionate advocate for global reading and translation for young people. She regularly gives translation workshops in schools, especially in September, World Kid Lit Month, and she writes about children’ s and YA literature in translation for Words Without Borders, World Literature Today, and World Kid Lit.
