Laura Esther Wolfson

Laura Esther Wolfson wrote For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors (Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction), and is a MacDowell Fellow. Her work has won the Notting Hill Essay Prize, appeared in Swedish and Spanish translation, received five ‘notables’ in The Best American Essays, and appeared in Lit Hub, Longreads, Poets & Writers, The Sun, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. Thirty years as a translator/interpreter of Russian and French inform every word she writes. Visit her website, lauraestherwolfson.com, and find her on Twitter @EstherLaura.