Ariel­la Carmell is the Edi­tor-at-Large of the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil. She grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go, where she stud­ied lit­er­a­ture and phi­los­o­phy. Her writ­ings have appeared in Alma, the Sier­ra Neva­da Review, the Brook­lyn Review, and elsewhere.