Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen, Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University, received her Ph.D. from New York University. She has published a variety of articles on Hebrew poetry of the 1960s and 1970s in Hebrew and in English. Her book, Loosen the Fetters of Thy Tongue, Woman: The Poetry and Poetics of Yona Wallach, was published in 2003.