Judg­ing Noa is Michal Struti­n’s debut nov­el. She is an award-win­ning author of eight books on trav­el and nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al his­to­ry, includ­ing Dis­cov­er­ing Nat­ur­al Israel and Smith­son­ian Guides to Nat­ur­al Amer­i­ca. Michal’s arti­cles have appeared in the New York Times, Los Ange­les Times, Tablet, Out­side, Rolling Stone, and oth­ers. She’s worked as a nation­al mag­a­zine and news­pa­per editor.