Karen E. H. Skinazi, PhD, is a cultural and literary critic who teaches at the University of Birmingham (UK). She has written for The Forward, Tablet, Lilith, and various academic journals, and she is currently working on a book about cultural representations of Orthodox Jewish women. A Torontonian through birth, New Yorker at heart, and Brummie by residence, Karen leads a vagabond life with her scientist-husband and three rowdy boys.
