Embroidery

About the Author

Sigrn Plsdttir completed a PhD in the History of Ideas at the University Oxford in 2001, after which she was a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Iceland. She worked as the editor ofSaga, the principal peer-reviewed journal for Icelandic history, from 2008 to 2016. Her previous titles include the historical biographyThora. A Bishop's DaughterandUncertain Seas, a story of a young couple and their three children who were killed when sailing from New York to Iceland aboard a ship torpedoed by a German submarine in 1944. Sigrn's work has been nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize, Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, Hagenkir Non-fiction Prize, and the DV Culture Prize.Uncertain Seaswas chosen the best biography in 2013 by booksellers in Iceland.

Lytton Smithis a poet, professor, and translator from the Icelandic. His most recent translations include works by Kristn marsdttir, Jn Gnarr, feigur Sigursson, Bragi lafsson, and Gubergur Bergsson. His most recent poetry collection,The All-Purpose Magical Tent, was published by Nightboat. Having earned his MFA and PhD from Columbia University, he currently teaches at SUNY Geneseo.