Faris Cas­sell is a jour­nal­ist and writer. Her pre­vi­ous title, The Unan­swered Let­ter, won the 2020 Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award in the Holo­caust cat­e­go­ry and placed first in the 2019 Pacif­ic North­west Writ­ers’ Asso­ci­a­tion Lit­er­ary Con­test for Unpub­lished Works. She and her hus­band, Syd­ney, live in Eugene, Ore­gon. She earned a B.A. in his­to­ry from Mount Holyoke Col­lege and an M.S. in jour­nal­ism from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oregon.