Menachem Elyah Paull, published previously as Mark E. Paull, is a Montreal writer and independent researcher preparing to make aliyah to Karmiel, in the Galilee. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, STAT News, The Missouri Review, Intima, and Chicken Soup for the Soul. He ran a Montreal travel agency for thirty-four years and lives with a Spanish greyhound named Gaia.