Ilana Kur­shan is a grad­u­ate of Har­vard and Cam­bridge. She has worked in lit­er­ary pub­lish­ing both in New York and in Jerusalem as a trans­la­tor and for­eign rights agent and as the books edi­tor of Lilith mag­a­zine. Her writ­ing has appeared in Tablet, Lilith, Hadas­sah, The For­ward, Kveller, The World Jew­ish Digest, Nashim, and The Jew­ish Week. She lives in Jerusalem with her hus­band and four children.