Monica Osborne is a writer and former professor of literature and film. She is a contributor at both Newsweek and the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, where she is Editor-at-Large, and has written for The New Republic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Forward, Areo Magazine, and other publications. She is the author of the book “The Midrashic Impulse.” She lives in Florence, Italy with her son and husband.
