Laura Esther Wolfson
Meet Laura
Laura Esther Wolfson is the author of For Single Mothers Working as Train Conductors (University of Iowa Press, 2018), winner of the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction, and Just Writing This Is Killing Me, Tales of Love and the Lockdown That Lasted Seventeen Years, forthcoming from Regal House in 2027. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times “Modern Love” column, been recognized with the Notting Hill Essay Prize, and cited as “notable” in The Best American Essays. Her work has been published in leading literary venues across Europe and the United States, as well as in Mexico, and translated into multiple languages. She is a MacDowell Fellow and lives in New York City.
Wolfson had a long career as a diplomatic interpreter and translator working from Russian and French into English, which included fifteen years at the United Nations. She served for many years as the interpreter for Russian-speaking authors at the PEN World Voices Festival and as a PEN prison writing mentor.