Ellen Gol­ub, Ph.D. began her career teach­ing and writ­ing about psy­cho­analy­sis and Jew­ish lit­er­a­ture at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia. For 20 years, she had a news­pa­per col­umn for the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Press Asso­ci­a­tion and now writes fic­tion as a research asso­ciate at The Hadas­sah-Bran­deis Insti­tute. She is the moth­er of four chil­dren and the grand­moth­er of four, and lives in Boston with her husband.