About the Author

Ruth Panofsky has published widely in the field of book history and print culture in Canada. Her first volume of poems, Lifeline, appeared in 2001. Her second volume of poetry, Laike and Nahum: A Poem in Two Voices, was published by Inanna in 2007. She is also the author of several scholarly books, most recently The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman (2006). In addition to scholarly works, her articles, book reviews, and poems have appeared in scholarly periodicals, literary journals, and major Canadian newspapers. She is Poetry Editor of the literary journal Parchment, and has received awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council Social and the Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Currently, she lives in Toronto where she teaches in the Department of English at Ryerson University.