Judy Brown wrote the con­tro­ver­sial nov­el Hush — a final­ist for the 2011 Syd­ney Tay­lor Award for out­stand­ing books on the Jew­ish expe­ri­ence — under a pseu­do­nym Eish­es Chay­il. She has been pro­filed in The New York Times Mag­a­zine and on Rock Cen­ter with Bri­an Williams, and has writ­ten for The Huff­in­g­ton Post and The Jew­ish For­ward. She holds a Mas­ter’s in cre­ative writ­ing and lives in New York City.