BA, comparative literature, Harvard University

MA, Hebrew Literature, Cambridge University

Ph.D., Hebrew and Yiddish, Harvard University

Award winning novelist, essayist and professor of literature

Sarah Lawrence College, City University of NY, Harvard and Yeshiva University

Contributor, NY Times, The Atlantic

5 award winning fiction novels

·  In the Image

·  The World to Come

·  All Other Nights

·  A Guide for the Perplexed

·  Eternal Life. New York

People Love Dead Jews, Reports from a Haunted Present - Winner of the National Jewish Book award