Jane Mushabac is a writer. Her many awards include fellowships from the NEH and Mellon Foundation and a Leapfrog Press international fiction contest award for her novel, His Hundred Years, A Tale. She wrote the novel and her Ladino short story, “Pasha: Pensamientos de David Aroughetti,” with the pen name Shalach Manot.  The story appeared in her English translation in a recent issue of AJS: Perspectives. The short Ladino play she co-wrote, “Un Otro Ermano—Another Brother,” premiered at the 2021 New York Ladino Day. Her NPR radio play, Mazal Bueno: A Portrait in Song of the Spanish Jews, narrated by Tovah Feldshuh, is available on CD. Mushabac is the co-author of A Short and Remarkable History of New York City (Fordham University Press and Museum of the City of New York), a “Best of the Best” of the American Association of University Presses. Her book on Herman Melville won high praise from Alfred Kazin and Irving Howe and others; and her essay on Moby-Dick was published in the acclaimed MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Mushabac’s work has been translated into Russian, German, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Ladino. She is professor emerita of English at City University of New York.