Roz Tromley is an east coast native who has spent time living in several states across the country. She is an alumna of the Pennsylvania State University, where she graduated with a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. She is completing her MA in Holocaust and Genocide studies at Gratz College in Pennsylvania, and she holds a certificate from University of Texas in Strategic Communication. She currently works for a prominent Holocaust and Genocide institution in the United States.

Roz Tromley is a pseudonym used to protect the identity of the writer.

Linda Gordon Kuzmack is an independent Jewish historian and practicing psychotherapist in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. She has taught in several universities in the Washington area and teaches and lectures throughout the region. Kuzmack was formerly the Director of Oral History at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Executive Director of the Foundation for Jewish Studies in Rockville, Maryland. She is the author of Woman’s Cause: The Jewish Woman’s Movement in England and the United States, 1881–1933 (1990).

Natalia Krynicka, the librarian of the Medem Library in Paris, teaches Yiddish at the Sorbonne University and in the Paris Yiddish Center. She received her M.A. from the Institute of Oriental Languages in Paris and is now preparing a doctoral dissertation on cross-cultural contacts between Yiddish and Polish literature.

Ronnie Becher is educational director of the Gananu Early Learning Center in Manhattan. Chair of the Women’s Tefillah of Riverdale, she also serves as executive vice president of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. She is a former Wexner Heritage Fellow.

Geoffrey H. Beale was a Royal Society professor, based in the Genetics Department, University of Edinburgh, until his retirement in 1976. He received his Ph.D. in 1938 from Imperial College, University of London, and on moving to Edinburgh developed a major research group working on the genetics of the free-living protozoan organism Paramecium. In 1965 he established the Protozoan Genetics Unit in Edinburgh and initiated research on genetics of the malaria parasite Plasmodium, work which has continued there to the present day.

Mónica Bausset-Orcutt teaches at the University of Utah. Her research has been dedicated to contemporary Latin American theater. She is the author/editor of Claves en el teatro de Nora Glickman (2007) and has published many articles and pieces of creative writing.

Elisheva Baumgarten is the Yitzhak Becker Professor of Jewish Studies and teaches in the Departments of Jewish History and History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her academic interests include medieval history, social history and anthropology, and applications of gender methodology to medieval studies. Her research centers on Germany and Northern France in the High Middle Ages. She is the author of Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe (2004) and Practicing Piety in Medieval Ashkenaz (Philadelphia, 2014). She is also editor of more than ten volumes that deal with the Jews of medieval Ashkenaz and author of dozens of articles that focus on the social history of medieval Jews and Jewish-Christian relations. Baumgarten is the recipient of a number of prizes, including the Michael Bruno Award (2016) for promising Israeli scholars and a European Research Council grant for her project "Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe."

Judith Tydor Baumel chairs the Graduate Program in Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University where she is a professor of modern Jewish history. She has published extensively on the Holocaust, the State of Israel, gender and memory.

Sigrid Bauschinger, born in 1934 in Frankfurt am Main, studied German and French literature and philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. She taught German at Oberlin College and at the University of Massachusetts until 2000. She has published on German Jewish-authors, especially Else Lasker-Schüler, as well as literature of exile and German-American cultural relations.