Lau­ra Arnold Leib­man is pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish and Human­i­ties at Reed Col­lege. Her numer­ous books have won four Nation­al Jew­ish Book Awards and a Jor­dan Schnitzer Book Award. She is the aca­d­e­m­ic direc­tor of the mul­ti­me­dia tele­vi­sion series Amer­i­can Pas­sages, which won a Hugo Award.