Scott Korb is the author several books, including LIGHT WITHOUT FIRE: THE MAKING OF AMERICA'S FIRST MUSLIM COLLEGE (Beacon, 2013), LIFE IN YEAR ONE: WHAT THE WORLD WAS LIKE IN FIRST-CENTURY PALESTINE (Riverhead, March 2010), and THE FAITH BETWEEN US (Bloomsbury, 2007), which he wrote with Peter Bebergal. He is co-editor of GESTURING TOWARD REALITY: DAVID FOSTER WALLACE AND PHILOSOPHY (Bloomsbury Academic, summer 2014) and associate editor of the HARRIET JACOBS FAMILY PAPERS (UNC Press, 2008), the first and perhaps only papers collection that will ever exist of a woman held in slavery. Scott currently teaches at the New School and New York University and is on the MFA faculty at Pacific University. www.scottkorb.com Photo Credit: Hong-An Tran
