Sharona Ben-Tov Muir is the author of a collection of poems, During Ceasefire, and a scholarly study of science fiction. She has won many awards for both her poetry and her prose, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, a Hodder Fellowship, and a Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Jerusalem Report and The Paris Review among other publications. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University, and is an associate professor of creative writing at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She lives in Perrysburg, where she and her husband, metalsmith Tom Muir, tend a forest and wildlife preserve.