Norman Ravvin is a writer, critic, and teacher. His publications include A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory, the novels The Girl Who Stole Everything and Lola by Night, and the co-edited Canadian Jewish Studies Reader. He is at work on a memoir and social history of early 1930s Canadian immigration. A native of Calgary, he lives in Montreal, where he teaches at Concordia University in the Department of Religions and Cultures.