Todd Hasak-Lowy is a novelist, essayist, translator, and professor of creative writing and literature at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A former professor of Hebrew language and literature, he is the author of numerous books for adults and younger readers, including The Task of This Translator, Captives, 33 Minutes, Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You, and Somewhere There Is Still a Sun, coauthored with Holocaust survivor Michael Gruenbaum. He has also translated several acclaimed works of modern Hebrew literature into English.