About Jill Culiner:

Jill Culiner, artist, photographer, writer and speaker, has been itinerant for most of her life. Born in New York, raised in Toronto, at the age of seventeen she left home to see the world and live in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Amsterdam or small villages in Turkey, Greece, Hungary and Germany. To survive, she has worked as radio announcer, check out clerk, office worker, market seller, Bgirl, newspaper girl, translator, fortune teller, belly dancer, bar dancer, model, actress and film extra. She has also crossed much of Europe on foot. Her artistic work has been shown in museums, cultural centres and galleries in Europe and Canada. Her literary career began at Radio France where she wrote and broadcast her own travel stories. her first book, a photographic work with text written by Gilbert Lascault, San S'abolir Pourtant, was published in Paris by l'Echoppe in 1991. A first novel, Felicity's Power, was pulped in 2001 when the Australian publisher went out of business. Her next work Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers was published in 2004 by Sumach Press in Toronto won the Tannenbaum Prize in Canadian Jewish History and was shortlisted for the ForeWord magazine prize in the essay category.