Ruth Panofsky, FRSC, is Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto, where she specializes in Canadian Literature. Her publications on Canadian Jewish women writers include The Force of Vocation: The Literary Career of Adele Wiseman (2006) and the award-winning two-volume Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington: A Critical Edition (2014). She is editor of The New Spice Box: Contemporary Jewish Writing (2020).