Read the new essay, "Writing Out of Our Minds," written for the Jewish Book Council by Rachel DeWoskin, Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts at the University of Chicago and an affiliated member of the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies.
Rachel DeWoskin is the author of Two Menus: Poems (The University of Chicago Press, 2020); Banshee (Dottir Press, 2019); Someday We Will Fly (Penguin, 2019); Blind (Penguin, 2014); Big Girl Small (FSG, 2011); Repeat After Me (The Overlook Press, 2009); and Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton, 2005). She was also the faculty organizer of the event in 2019 "The Shanghai Jews: Risk and Resilience in a Refugee Community."