Miryam Sivan is a for­mer New York­er who has lived in Israel for twen­ty-five years. She teach­es lit­er­a­ture and writ­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Haifa. In addi­tion to schol­ar­ly arti­cles and a book-length study on Cyn­thia Ozick, she writes short and long fic­tion. Sivan is the author SNA­FU & Oth­er Sto­ries, and a recent­ly pub­lished nov­el, Make it Con­crete.