Jonathan Garfinkel is an award-winning author whose work has been translated into a dozen languages. His novel In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark (House of Anansi Press, 2023), was published in German as Platz der Freiheit by Rowohlt Berlin. His plays include Cockroach (adapted from the novel by Rawi Hage) and House of Many Tongues, nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. The controversial The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret has been performed across Canada, Russia, Ukraine, and Germany. He is the author of the poetry collections Glass Psalms and Bociany and the forthcoming Do You Love Your Life? His memoir, Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide, has been published in numerous countries to wide critical acclaim, and his long-form nonfiction has appeared in the Walrus, Tablet, the Globe and Mail, and PEN International, as well as Cabin Fever: An Anthology of the Best New Canadian Non-Fiction. Named by the Toronto Star as “one to watch,” Garfinkel is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the field of Health Humanities at the University of Alberta, where he is writing a memoir about living with type 1 diabetes and the revolutionary open-source Loop artificial pancreas system. He lives in Berlin.