Maya Arad is the author of eleven books of Hebrew fic­tion, as well as stud­ies in lit­er­ary crit­i­cism and lin­guis­tics. Born in Israel in 1971, she received a PhD in lin­guis­tics from Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don, and for the past twen­ty years has lived in Cal­i­for­nia where she is cur­rent­ly a writer in res­i­dence at Stan­ford University’s Taube Cen­ter for Jew­ish Studies.