Pearl Abraham is the author of four novels, most recently, American Taliban and The Seventh Beggar (Koret Int’l Award, shortlist). Her essays and stories have appeared in various publications, including Longreads, LitHub, and Michigan Quarterly. Animal Voices/Mineral Hum, a collection of stories in progress, was shortlisted for the 2018 McCarthy Prize. “Fluxus on Pulver,” appeared in the 2023 fall issue of Air/Light and “Four Entered Pardes: Five Poems” was featured in the December 2023 issue of Amethyst Review. A review of Merle L. Bachman’s “So Many Warm Words,” a translation of Rosa Nevadovska’s select Yiddish poems, is forthcoming on Ingeveb.