With reindeer in Lapland, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden

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Sample introduction to readings from
The Palace of the Snow Queen:

Barbara Sjoholm [pronounced "Shoe-holm"] is an essayist, memoirist, translator, and travel writer who has also written numerous works of fiction and mystery under the name Barbara Wilson. Her most recent book is The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland, which Vendala Vida praises as "an exquisite book," and Rebecca Brown calls "a thoroughly researched, funny, lively and—yes—warm book about what humans can discover and create in the cold."

A frequent traveler to Scandinavia, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to travel through a landscape and a season that had long intrigued her. Beginning with a visit to northern Sweden’s Icehotel, Sjoholm spent three winters in Lapland. On top of dogsledding across the Finnmark Plateau and watching films at an ice cinema in Finland, Sjoholm explored the rich history
of the Sami people and current conflicts over the future of a region called “Europe’s Last Untouched Wilderness.”

In The Palace of the Snow Queen, Sjoholm not only tells the story of her own adventures, but also considers the power of ice and snow to shape our imaginations. She delivers a powerful travel narrative of this comparatively little-known polar world and its people.

Sjoholm is the author of Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer. Her memoir Blue Windows: A Christian Science Childhood was nominated for a PEN USA Literary Award and won a Lambda Literary Award. The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O’Malley and Other Legendary Women of the Sea was also a finalist for a PEN USA award. She won a British Crime Writers award for Gaudi Afternoon, which was made into a film. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Smithsonian, and American Scholar. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.