Dara Horn is the acclaimed author of five nov­els, includ­ing two Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award win­ners. A schol­ar of Yid­dish and Hebrew lit­er­a­ture, she has taught at Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty, Sarah Lawrence Col­lege and City Uni­ver­si­ty of New York, and has lec­tured at over 200 uni­ver­si­ties and cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions through­out North Amer­i­ca, Aus­tralia and Israel. She lives in New Jer­sey with her hus­band and four children.