Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir is a poet and historian in Reykjavík, Iceland. She has published three books of poetry: Blótgælur („Tender Swear Words“, 2007), Skrælingjasýningin („The Savages Exhibition“, 2011), and Stormviðvörun (Stormwarning, 2015). Her third book, Stormwarning, was translated into English by K.B. Thors and published in a bilingual edition in the United States by Phoneme Media in 2018. For her translation, Thors won the American-Scandinavian Foundation‘s Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award and was longlisted for the PEN America Literary Award for translated poetry. Kristín Svava‘s poems have also been translated into Danish, German, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish and Arabic, and published in various magazines and anthologies.