Born in Romania, Vera Schwarcz is a well known poet and a historian. She is the author of eight books on Chinese and Jewish history including the prize-winning Bridge Across Broken Time: Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory (1999) and most recently, Place and Memory in Singing Crane Garden (2008). She has also written four books of poetry including Brief Rest in the Garden of Flourishing Grace (2009) and Chisel of Remembrance (2009). Currently, Schwarcz is the Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan. Her work won a Guggenheim Fellowship and is featured on the web @: between2walls.com. [Read]