Jill Culiner, author, photographer, artist and speaker, has been leading a largely itinerant life over the last 45 years. Born in New York, raised in Canada, at the age of 17 she went to live in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Amsterdam. In order to survive, she worked as a file clerk, checkout clerk, poodle groomer, television presenter,
b-girl, market seller, newspaper delivery girl, translator, fortune teller, belly dancer, go-go dancer, model. She has since lived in small villages in England, France, Germany, Turkey, Greece and Hungary and has walked across much of Europe.

Her social critical art and photographic work has been shown in museums and galleries throughout Europe and Canada and she began her literary career by writing and broadcasting travel stories for Radio France. Her first book, a novel written in 2001, ended in a shredder when the publisher went broke before it hit the market. She has since published two other books. Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers, published in 2004,
won the Joseph and Faye Tannenbaum Prize for Canadian Jewish History and was shortlisted for the Fore Word Magazine Prize in the essay and history category.

Her mystery, Slanderous Tongue, was published in 2007.