My name is Pernilla Wåhlström.

I am a native of Sweden and currently live in Sweden. I grew up bilingual, speaking both Swedish and English at home. In Sweden everybody has to learn English in school (from second grade) so I learned the basic rules of writing there. At the age of 18 I started working in health care and after that I worked in an arts and crafts store, but even though I liked it I was looking for something different. So after a few years I decided to change paths completely and moved to the US and went to College (Burlington County College) where I studied English, literature and a number of other subjects to get as great a width as possible.

After 2½ years in the US I moved back to Sweden in year 2000 and studied literary science at Karlstad University and at this time I started translating part time. Since 2008 I work full time as a translator.