Sara Lipp­mann is the author of the nov­el Lech and the sto­ry col­lec­tions Doll Palace and Jerks. She is co-edi­tor of Smash­ing the Tablets: Rad­i­cal Retellings of the Hebrew Bible and co-founder of the Writ­ing Co-lab, an online teach­ing coop­er­a­tive based in Brook­lyn. Her new nov­el, Hid­den Riv­er, will be pub­lished in 2026.