Bar­bara Kreiger is adjunct asso­ciate pro­fes­sor and chair of cre­ative writ­ing in the Mas­ter of Arts in Lib­er­al Stud­ies Pro­gram at Dart­mouth Col­lege. Her oth­er pub­li­ca­tions include Divine Expec­ta­tions: An Amer­i­can Woman in Nine­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Pales­tine. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Smith­son­ian Mag­a­zine, and oth­er publications.