Jacqueline Schaalje (MA English from the University of Amsterdam) was born in the Netherlands. She published articles in many magazines in the Netherlands, and in smaller ones in the US and UK, worked as a linguist and a dictionary writer, and ended up living in Israel, where she tutors English and Dutch, and writes. She went to the Southampton Writers Conference (NY) last summer to work on a novel. Her stories have appeared in On the Premises and in MayDay, and one is forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review.