Catherine Epstein teaches Humanities and directs theater at Meridian Academy in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She received her Bachelor’s degree in English from Vassar College, where she wrote her thesis on banned books in American schools. She has worked as a public radio producer for WNYC, freelance writer, museum educator, and submissions reader of short stories and plays. She is a recipient of a 2017 Margot Stern Strom Innovation Grant from Facing History and Ourselves.