Zafrira Lidovsky Cohen, 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 in Hebrew and English on Hebrew poetry of the 20th century. Her book, Loosen the Fetters of Thy Tongue, Woman: The Poetry and Poetics of Yona Wallach, was published in 2003. A Hebrew translation of the book was published in 2009.