Shira Wolosky received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and was an Associate Professor of English at Yale University before moving to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is a Professor of English and American Literature. She has written Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War, Language Mysticism, The Art of Poetry, and Poetry and Public Discourse: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.

Shira Wolosky received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, and was an Associate Professor of English at Yale University before moving to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she is a Professor of English and American Literature. She has written Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War, Language Mysticism, The Art of Poetry, and Poetry and Public Discourse: Nineteenth-Century American Poetry.