Anna Elena Torres is the author of Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature (Yale University Press, 2024), A Bear Flew By: Animality in Yiddish Arts and Literature (Rutgers University Press, forthcoming), and the co-editor of With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism (University of Illinois Press, 2023). Their work has appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Queer Modernisms, Prooftexts, Jewish Quarterly Review, Nashim, make/shift: a journal of feminisms in motion, In geveb, Comparative Literature, and elsewhere. Torres’ collaborative art practice includes work as a muralist, contributor to the Yiddishland Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2022), and commissioned artist by the POLIN Museum, Warsaw.