Sigal Samuel is an award-winning novelist and journalist. Currently a staff writer at Vox, she previously worked as a religion editor at The Atlantic, an opinion editor at The Forward, and an associate editor at The Daily Beast. The Mystics of Mile End, her debut novel, was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and won the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and the Alberta Book Publishing Award. She hails from an Iraqi Jewish family in Montreal and now lives in Washington, DC.