Jennifer Homans was a professional dancer, trained at Balanchine's School of American Ballet. She has a doctorate in European and American cultural history and is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU, where she is the Founding Director of the Center for Ballet and the Arts. She lives in NYC and is the dance critic for the New Yorker. Her debut, Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet (Granta, 2011) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
