Dinah Berland's recent book, Hours of Devotion: Fanny Neuda's Book of Prayers for Jewish Women (Schocken, 2007), is a verse adaptation of the work of nineteenth-century Moravian writer Fanny Neuda, the first woman to write a Jewish prayer book for all occasions for women. Berland's poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, The Iowa Review, and four issues of Ploughshares, and are anthologized in Nice Jewish Girls: Growing Up in America, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles, where she works as a book editor for the J. Paul Getty Museum.