Car­o­line Igra is a free­lance writer, an art his­to­ri­an, a triath­lete, and a moth­er. She lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, but haisl from Philadel­phia. She has a bachelor’s degree from Brown Uni­ver­si­ty, a master’s from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, and a Ph.D. in Art His­to­ry from the Insti­tute of Fine Art, NYU. She has pub­lished numer­ous art his­tor­i­cal arti­cles, sev­er­al exhi­bi­tion cat­a­logs, and a mono­graph on Pol­ish artist J.D. Kirszen­baum, cho­sen as one of Slate Mag­a­zine​’s Best Books that year. Her cre­ative non­fic­tion has been fea­tured in sev­er­al lit­er­ary jour­nals, includ­ing Col­lat­er­al, Away, and Moth­ers Always Write. Her first nov­el, Count to a Thou­sand, was pub­lished in 2018 (Man­dolin Pub­lish­ing). Her sec­ond, From Where I Stand, was in 2022 (Koehler Books).