Ruth Knafo Setton is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, The Road to Fez. Born in Safi, Morocco, she is the descendant of martyrs, mystics and musicians whose voices she hears as she writes. The recipient of literary fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, PEN, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and Yaddo, MacDowell and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others, she has published fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction in many journals and anthologies, including Becoming Myself: Reflections on Growing Up Female, The Schocken Book of Modern Sephardic Literature, Best Contemporary Jewish Writing, Wrestling with Zion, The Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage, Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of a Literary Legacy, The North American Review, and Tikkun. She is the Writer-in-Residence for the Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University, where she teaches courses on American-Jewish Literature, Multicultural Women’s Literature, and Creative Writing. She often gives lectures on Sephardic identity and literature, creative writing workshops and readings. She just completed her second novel, Darktown Blues, and is working on a collection of poetry, Dance of the Seven Skins. She can be contacted through her website: www.ruthknafosetton.com.