Bio

Jonathan Garfinkel is an award-winning author. His plays include Cockroach, House of Many Tongues and The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret. He has published the poetry collection Glass Psalms, chapbook Bociany and memoir Ambivalence: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide. His non-fiction has appeared in the Walrus, Tablet, the Globe and Mail, PEN International and more. Named by the Toronto Star as “one to watch,” Garfinkel is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, where he is writing a memoir about life with type 1 diabetes, and the revolutionary open-source Loop artificial pancreas system. He lives in Berlin and Toronto.