Jen­nifer Miller is author of The Year of the Gad­fly (Har­court, 2012) and Inher­it­ing the Holy Land (Bal­lan­tine, 2005). Her jour­nal­ism has appeared in The New York Times, The Wash­ing­ton Post, The Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor, Marie Claire, Fast Com­pa­ny, Smith​son​ian​.com, the Colum­bia Jour­nal­ism Review, The Mil­lions and The Dai­ly Beast. Jen holds degrees in fic­tion and jour­nal­ism from Colum­bia. She is a native of Wash­ing­ton, DC and cur­rent­ly lives in Brook­lyn, NY, with all the oth­er writers.