Jake D. Sauls is a writer and edu­ca­tor based in Jerusalem. He is cur­rent­ly com­plet­ing an M.A. in Jew­ish Stud­ies at the Hebrew Uni­ver­si­ty of Jerusalem, where his research traces the ketoret incense rit­u­al through Jew­ish rab­binic and mys­ti­cal tra­di­tions. His short-form work has appeared in pub­li­ca­tions includ­ing THEM, The Inde­pen­dent, Belle­vue Lit­er­ary Review, Bloom: Jour­nal of Queer Arts, Duende, Autumn Sky Poet­ry Dai­ly, and Judith Mag­a­zine. He is the best-sell­ing author of The Passover Princess, Those Witch­es’ Winds, and oth­er books. He is also a co-cre­ator of Small Books for Big Feel­ings, an ear­ly chap­ter book series devel­oped with his team at Ink & Or Book­works. His nov­el Where Let­ters Swim and Swal­lows Burn, a work of Jew­ish ​“mys­ti­cal real­ism” set in Jerusalem after Octo­ber 7, is forthcoming.