Born in New York, and raised in Toronto, Jill Culiner, writer, social critical artist, and photographer has spent most of her life in France, England, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, Holland, and North Africa. Her photographic exhibition about the First and Second World Wars, La Mémoire Effacée, toured France, Canada, and Hungary under the auspices of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNESCO.
Her non-fiction, Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers won the Joseph and Faye Tanenbaum Prize for Canadian Jewish History and was shortlisted for the ForeWord Magazine Award. Her biography of a nineteenth-century rebel Yiddish poet and singer, A Contrary Journey with Velvel Zbarzher, Bard, was published by Claret Press (London) in 2022. Her non-fiction Those Absent on the Great Hungarian Plain, (Claret Press), won the 2024 Canadian Jewish Book Award for Memoir.
She has also written six romances and two mysteries. Words for Patty Jo, her 2026 Literary/General Fiction release, has so far won The Bookish Award and The Bookish Reader’s Pick Award.
She presently lives in a 400-year-old inn in France that is so odd, it has been classified as an (unofficial) museum. (https://www.jill-culiner.com)
