Rachel Seelig, PhD is a freelance writer and educator. She is the author of Strangers in Berlin: Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919-1933 (University of Michigan Press, 2016), a variety of academic articles, and essays for the popular press. Rachel has held research and teaching appointments at Harvard, Columbia, the University of Michigan, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Toronto. She lives in Toronto with her two children and husband, with whom she writes and publishes children's books under the imprint Lovely Books.