Chana Bloch directs the creative writing program at Mills College. Her books include the poetry collections The Past Keeps Changing and The Secrets of the Tribe, as well as translations of Yehuda Amichai, Dahlia Ravikovitch, and The Song of Songs. New poems of hers appear in The Atlantic Monthly, The Marlboro Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, Salmagundi, and The Threepenny Review.