Rena Potok

Rena Potok is a writer, editor, and educator. Her articles, reviews, and poems have appeared in many publications, including Religion and Literature; The Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature; Borders, Exiles, Diasporas; and Contemporary Women Poets. She is the former senior acquisitions editor at the Jewish Publication Society, and is the editor of Hills of Spices: Poetry from the Bible as well as the 50th-anniversary critical edition of The Chosen by Chaim Potok. In 2017 she was a Fiction Fellow at the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She teaches literature and writing at Villanova University.