Sohvi Kangasluoma

Sohvi Kangasluoma works as a postdoctoral researcher in international politics, focusing on environmental issues in the Arctic region. She has published academic articles and book chapters on the agency of ice along northern sea routes, ocean governance, and the Arctic fossil economy.

Then We Sailed North: Notes from the Arctic Seas is Kangasluoma’s first nonfiction book. The years spent on northern seas have taught her to listen to and read the sea and the ice in a particular way. Encounters with both the inhabitants of the sea and the land have profoundly shaped Kangasluoma’s way of seeing the world.

Sohvi Kangasluoma lives on her sailboat with her partner, Juho—usually in northern waters—or at a cabin in Northern Finland, enjoying snow and cold.

Photo credit: Mikko-Pekka Karlin