Born in New York, raised in Toronto, Jill Culiner has spent most of her life in France, England, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Holland, and North Africa. Her photographic exhibition about the First and Second World Wars, La Mémoire Effacée, toured France, Canada, and Hungary under the auspices of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNESCO.

For her non-fiction, Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers (Sumach Press, Toronto), she crossed Romania on foot, won the Joseph and Faye Tannenbaum Prize for Canadian Jewish History, and was shortlisted for the ForeWord Magazine Prize. For her biography of a largely forgotten nineteenth-century Yiddish poet. A Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher, Bard (Claret Press, London), she travelled through Ukraine and Romania to Turkey. She has just completed a manuscript about a pogrom that took place in Hungary in 1946.

She has presented the history of country music on Radio France, has narrated several audiobooks, and has spoken to genealogical and historical societies in the USA, Canada, and Israel.

A social critical artist, she now lives in a 400-year-old inn in France that is so chaotic and strange, it has been classified as a museum. Visitors welcome! (http://www.jill-culiner.com)