Essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman writes of the lives and afterlives of people, movies, buildings, books, and certain city streets. Her books include My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City, and Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures. With Peter Cole, she is also the author of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, which won the American Library Association’s Brody Medal for the Jewish Book of the Year. The recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and the Windham Campbell prize, she teaches a class on Writing from the Archive in the Humanities Program each spring.
