Rachel Willson-Broyles

Longlist, 2020 National Book Awards

Rachel Willson-Broyles became interested in Sweden and the Swedish language at an early age. She majored in Scandinavian Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and received her BA there in 2002.
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The Helios Disaster

ISBN 9781642860689 World Editions

This modern spin on the myth of Athena plunges us deep inside the mind of an unlikely twelve-year-old goddess confined to a small Swedish town. More about this book >

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Rachel Willson-Broyles

Rachel Willson-Broyles became interested in Sweden and the Swedish language at an early age. She majored in Scandinavian Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and received her BA there in 2002. She started translating while a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she received a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies in 2013. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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